A Bangladesh delegation lately (30 September) went to Nepal to signal a contract to import 40 MW of electricity from the Himalayan nation.
Senior Secretary of the Vitality Division Habibur Rahman would perchance be main the 8-member delegation where they’re expected to signal the contract on 4 October.
Sources on the Vitality Division acknowledged there would perchance be a tripartite settlement between Bangladesh, Nepal and India as the electricity would perchance be imported during the Indian territories.
Earlier, Bangladesh’s Cabinet Committee on Government Aquire (CCGP) accredited a proposal of the narrate-owned Bangladesh Vitality Improvement Board (BPDB) to import the majority electricity from Nepal.
As per the proposal, the tariff for electricity used to be space at 6.40 US cents per kilowatt hour (vitality mark at Muzaffarpur Substation, India) plus 0.0595 Indian Rupee per kilowatt hour for Indian Contractor’s buying and selling margin and additionally transmission cost to be fixed by the Indian Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC).
Calculating such tariff development, a high reliable of the BPDB acknowledged that below the proposed deal, every unit of electricity from Nepal will cost Tk8.50.
Officers of the BPDB additionally talked about that the tariff would be great lower if Bangladesh would were in a dilemma to import electricity from Nepal straight.
But as a substitute of that inform import, Bangladesh will now possess to import the electricity through an Indian buying and selling firm NVVN and additionally during the Indian grid.
“There might perchance be simplest a 26-km transmission line that goes through Indian Territory. If Bangladesh used to be allowed to rating this 26-km transmission line at our possess cost, the tariff of Nepali electricity would be below Tk7,” he told UNB.
Bangladesh has been negotiating with Nepal for a actually long time to import electricity. But it absolutely took an infinite time to effect an determining between Dhaka, Kathmandu and Novel Delhi to signal the proposed contract.
Now the three events – BPDB from Bangladesh, Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) from Nepal and NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN) from India will signal the tripartite settlement on this regard.
Sources acknowledged Bangladesh had to accept all Indian stipulations to import the electricity from the Himalayan nation. The Indian firm NVVN used to be eager as per the Indian situation.
The outdated Awami League govt had acknowledged that if Bangladesh indicators a address Nepal to import 40 MW electricity, this might perchance produce a possibility to export electricity from Bangladesh as successfully throughout the chilly weather season when energy quiz stays lower in Bangladesh.
This time Bangladesh will simplest signal a contract to import 40 MW energy from Nepal, no longer to export energy to Nepal, acknowledged another BPDB reliable.
Sources acknowledged the resolution to originate the import of 40 MW energy from Nepal used to be finalised in a two-day meeting of the joint steering committee (JSC) and joint working committee (JWC) on Bangladesh-Nepal energy and vitality sector cooperation on Might perchance perchance well 14-15 in 2023 at Patuakhali in Bangladesh.
Earlier than the meeting, Nepalese International Minister Narayan Prakash Saud visited Dhaka and held a meeting with Bangladeshi public and internal most sector officers where he knowledgeable them to make investments within the hydropower sector within the Himalayan nation, preserving about 60,000 MW of neat vitality potentials.
Within the apply-up, per a myth of the Kathmandu Post, throughout the Nepalese top minister’s India consult with (30 Might perchance perchance well-1 June in 2023), India agreed to facilitate Nepal to export 40 MW electricity to Bangladesh through Indian transmission infrastructure.
Currently, Bangladesh is importing electricity from India through a a similar affiliation where the Indian company NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN) is selling energy to BPDB.
Sources acknowledged besides the 40 MW import opinion, Bangladesh in the end wants to import 500 MW of hydroelectricity from Nepal through India through Indian company GMR. But no growth has been made in most modern days on this regard.
