Bangladesh struggles to arrange gas supply for new gas-fired power plants Azizur RahmanBangladesh is struggling to arrange sufficient gas supply for half a dozen new gas-fired power plants with total generation capacity of around 3,510 MW due to heavy government subsidies and slow-moving reforms, according to project operators and market participants. The power plants that have completed construction are – Unique Meghnaghat Power’s 584-MW plant, the 583-MW Summit Meghnaghat-II and the 718-MW power plant jointly owned by India’s Reliance Power and Japan’s JERA. The three public sector gas-fired power plants nearing completion are the 800-MW Rupsha combined cycle power plant, 416-MW Ghorashal Repowering Unit 3 and 409-MW Ghorashal Repowering Unit 4. Khan said there is already intense competition among existing plants for Petrobangla’s gas but it has agreed to supply gas to the new power plants upon availability. “The power plant owners inked deals and constructed the power plants knowing all the conditions in Bangladesh,” Mohammad Hossain, director general of the government’s power cell, said.
