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Published on September 16, 2014
The state-owned power producer Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) will work in assistance with international donor agencies to construct those power stations 6,000mw capacity coal-based and 3,000mw capacity liquefied natural gas (LNG)-based power plants on 5,000 acres of land at the island in the Bay of Bengal.
BPDB has taken up a Tk 189.5 million project to prepare a master plan for turning Maheshkhali Island into a power hub.
After taking power in 2008, the government targeted to generate 50 per cent of the country's total electricity supply from the coal by 2030, shifting from its major power generation source -- natural gas, which currently accounted for more than 80% power generation.
To this effect, the government has already started work for setting up three coal based power stations.
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