Capacity payment ballooning with LNG-fired plants also claiming
Dhaka, March 26 -- Euphemistically-coined financial penalty called capacity payment now branches out as LNG-fired power plants emerge as new claimants, with an almost laid-off one already billing against unused electricity, sources say.
The Meghnaghat Unique 584- megawatt one, which happens to be Bangladesh's first power plant fueled by liquefied natural gas (LNG), went into commercial operation a couple of months back. "But the plant has been kept idle for most of the days over the past two months since its commercial operation date (COD) was registered," says a senior power official.
Such state has surfaced as the state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) did not purchase electricity from this plant, the official told the FE...
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