New Delhi (India), 10th April 2023: The first private energy agreement between the two nations has been put into action with Adani Power’s import coal-fired power station built at Godda in Jharkhand turning on electricity supplies to Bangladesh.
The business said on Sunday that the first of its two 800 MW units, which use cleaner ultra-supercritical technology and supply 748 MW to Bangladesh, had been put into service.
S B Khyalia, CEO of Adani Power, hailed the company’s power as a key asset in the long-standing links between India and Bangladesh.
He said, “It will ease the power supply in Bangladesh, making its industries and ecosystem more competitive. It is going to be the most efficient and environment-friendly thermal power plants in India and globally one of the best in class.”
The Godda project will replace costly electricity produced using liquid fuel, lowering the average cost of electricity consumed, the company claimed. Bangladesh is experiencing a power shortage as a result of high fuel prices because most of its electricity is generated by petrol and diesel engines, which have high tariffs.
According to the statement, the Godda project is the first power plant to operate in India with zero water discharge and 100% desulfurization of gas from the outset.
In November 2017, the business and Bangladesh Power Development Board signed a power purchase deal. The project recently made headlines as Bangladeshi media reported that Dhaka had requested rate renegotiation due to the high cost of coal.
However, senior energy officials from Bangladesh who were in the country at the time claimed that power would arrive from the project on schedule.
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