Midland Power, a local joint venture, recently signed an agreement with Rolls-Royce Bergen Engines AS to set up a plant at Ashuganj in Brahmanbaria that will generate 150 megawatt of electricity.
The UK-based Rolls-Royce will supply machinery and offer technical support to Midland to set up the Tk 800-crore plant scheduled to go into operations by March next year. David Hasanat, chairman of Midland Power, and Jeff Elliott, managing director of Rolls-Royce Bergen Engines, signed the deal in Dhaka for the furnace oil-based power plant.
Elliot said Rolls-Royce is now supporting power plants in Bangladesh that are producing 716MW of electricity. Some other units to generate 450MW, including the 150MW of Midland Power, will start production soon.
