Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company Pvt Ltd (BIFPCL) issued Tuesday a notice to proceed to Indian BHEL for executing contract for coal based thermal power project at Rampal in Bangladesh.
The state-owned Indian company announced it got the $1.5 billion export order for the 1,320 MW thermal power station. In order to meet stringent environmental norms, BHEL shall also install a state-of-the-art FGD plant and Dry bottom ash handling system,” the notice said. Flue-gas desulfurisation or FGD refers to technology that removes sulfur dioxide from exhaust of power plants that use fossil fuel. Removal of ash, the residue from combustion of coal, is critical to environmental safety. The company would work on design, engineering, manufacturing, supply, construction, erection, testing and commissioning of two 660 MW thermal sets “with ultra-supercritical parameters on turnkey basis”, the post added. It would also to set up a jetty and a river-water intake system.
The Export-Import Bank of India or Exim Bank will provide $1.6 billion of the $2 billion Maitree Power Project to be built in Bagerhat’s Rampal, according to an agreement signed during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s much-hyped visit to New Delhi earlier this month.