Bangladesh Plans to Generate 5000MW Power thru Coal...

Bangladesh Plans to Generate 5000MW Power thru Coal Gasification

Saturday, 11.06.2010, 08:05am (GMT)


Dhaka, Nov 4: The Bangladesh government is planning to generate 5,000 megawatt of power by using Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) technology in the countrys deepest coalfield of Jamalganj.
The plan is being considered as Australian company Mitchell Group, USA-based Clean Coal Ltd (CCL) and two other companies from Australia and Canada have proposed the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources to install the quantity of electricity there.
Australian company Mitchel Group recently submitted a proposal to the PMs Power and Energy Adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury to install the mega power plant.
According to the proposal, they want to install a 10MW plant in any coal field in the country on experimental basis. If you permit us then we would install a 400MW power plant under UGC method by 2015, the proposal reads.
Earlier, the USA-based Clean Coal Ltd (CCL) proposed to install such power plant within 3-5 years after signing agreement on build-own-operate (BOO) basis.
Jamalganj is the deepest and largest coalfield of Bangladesh with a huge deposit at 500 to 1,000 metre depth. The mine has an estimated reserve of over one billion tonnes of coal.
The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources had formed a 9-member committee to scrutinise the proposals in the middle of this year and asked to submit a report within a month. But the committee is yet to be submit the report
on installation of such power plant at Jamalganj.