Sylhet 150 MW power plant may be delayed
The 150 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant in Sylhet, scheduled to complete by October this year, is likely to be deferred due to delay in import of machinery and setting of gas metering system in the plant.
Contacted, Executive Engineer of Power Development Board Belal Ahmed Chowdhury, who is supervising the plant construction, admitted the matter.
However, he said, "We are trying our best to make up for the time to be lapsed in import of machinery and other things by the Chinese company. Construction of the infrastructure is going on in full swing."
On February 8 last year, Shanghai Electric Group Company Limited of China was awarded the contract for establishment of the natural gas-run plant at Kumargaon in Sylhet city at a cost of Tk 879 crore.
Consequently, a five-acre land adjacent to PDB's Kumargaon 20 MW power station and Energyprima's 50 MW power station were handed over to the company.
"Commercial operation of the plant was scheduled for October 25 this year but it will not be possible for several reasons," Project Director Khondaker Iftekhar Uddin, also superintending engineer of PDB, told this correspondent recently.
"Works are being hampered due to excessive rain. Besides, import of machinery from China and Italy and establishment of the gas regulating metering system is being delayed. We are trying our best to finish the works," he said.
MA Munim, general manager of the state-run Jalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution limited, said, "The Singapore firm-Zicom Equipment Private limited, which was awarded the job of supplying the gas metering system has been asked to arrange shipment of equipment at an earliest. Hopefully those will reach by October and things will be ready that time."
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