At least four oil-fired costly power plants with 447MW combined power generation capacity have failed to meet their agreed commercial operation deadline.
The power plants are: Chandpur 115MW HFO based Power plant, Chowmohani 113MW Power Plant, Meghnaghat 104MW HFO-base plant and Thakurgaon 115MW Power Plant.
Among them, Chandpur and Meghnaghat plants were supposed to come into operation by July 16, 2019, Chowmuhani plant by June 04, 2019 and Thakurgaon plant by November 03, 2019, according to required commercial operation date (RCOD) under the contract.
Power division officials said the Chowmuhani 113MW power plant and Meghnaghat 104MW HFO-base plant are expected to achieve commercial operation date (COD) soon despite around one-year delay.
According to sources Meghnaghat 104MW HFO-base plant was a schedule to achieve required commercial operation date (RCOD) on July 16, 2019.
After failing to meet July16, 2019 RCOD, the Meghnaghat 104MW HFO-base plant was supposed to start commercial operation on March 15, 2020. But it also failed to mead the deadline and now it has sought fresh schedule to start operation.
Besides, Chowmohani 113MW Power Plant had a schedule to achieve RCOD on June 4, 2020 after singing power purchase agreement in December, 2017.
It was supposed to generate electricity from the plant on December 31, 2019.
