The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) on May 19 approved a total of nine proposals including one for setting up a 400MW power plant at Raozan in Chattogram by a Chinese company.
The approval came from the 18th meeting of the CCGP held virtually with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in the chair.
Briefing reporters virtually after the metering, Cabinet Division Additional Secretary Dr Sahida Akhter said that SEPCO-III Electric Power Construction Company Limited, China will set up the power plant at Raozan in Chattogram with around Tk 1,796.72 crore under the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB).
The unit price of per kilowatt hour electricity will be Tk 1.38.
Replying to a question, the Finance Minister said the government would replace the old power plants as cost of operation of those is much higher. He also said that service delivery in this regard would be ensured in an economical way.
Meanwhile, Dr Sahida said in a proposal from the Energy and Mineral Resources Division, Petrobangla would procure some 33.60 lakh MMBtu LNG from AOT Trading AG, Switzerland with a cost of around Taka 340.62 crore where the price of per unit MMBtu would be $10.1997.
