Dhaka, Oct. 16 -- The fast-track diesel-based power plant projects, which were supposed to generate a total of 900 megawatt electricity, have remained idle for months causing an annual loss of Tk 918 crore to the government, said experts.
The costly fossil fuel-based power plants were initially awarded contracts to generate electricity within six months to mitigate the impending power crisis, but now with LNG-based power plants in use, there is no necessity to take electricity from those plants, they added.
Sources with the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) told that of those power plants, only Bangla Track's diesel-based 100-MW plant at Nowapara is currently in operation, albeit at 60 to 70 per cent capacity.
The diesel-based po...