RE: Power production from coal up, several oil plants shut23 Feb 2024 19:19
Hi Searcher
Re your post :
Honestly not sure if this has been posted before or not but looks like it was written 6 days ago .....
"The country, on the contrary, is relying more on
Four coal plants with an aggregate capacity of around 3,365 megawatts are already in operation. The 1,234MW Maitree Super Thermal Power Project, SS Power's 1,224MW plant, Barisal Electric Power Co's 307MW plant and the 1st unit of Matarbari 1200MW plant initiated electricity generation in 2023. And the second unit of the Matarbari coal plant is expected to come online this coming March, the official lists the advances in the switch.
"These coal-fired power plants in Bangladesh alone will require around 45,000 tonnes of imported coal per day," says the official."
45,000 tonne’s a day = 16.425 million a year required.
Phulbari at full ramp up can ‘only’ produce 15 million tonnes per year - and that will take 5 years to get up to that amount I believe.
So all the coal from Phulbari won’t even be enough to fuel the power stations that are currently on line - let alone any other as that they have planned - including any at Phulbari.
Will that be enough power generated for the country to function without load shedding I wonder?
It would seem pointless to build more power stations if they didn’t have the coal to fuel the ones they already have?