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Go for coal-based power plant to resolve crisis

Speakers urge govt

UNB, Dhaka
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday suggested the government immediately go for coal-based power plant, even if it runs on imported coal, to resolve the nagging power crisis.
Energy and Power magazine organised the roundtable on 'Energy Source for Power Generation' at the Cirdap Auditorium in the city.
"We may have many options for power generation, but coal should be the best option in the present perspective as we are not in a position to go for offshore exploration of gas immediately," Dr Ijaz Hossain told the roundtable.
Dr Hossain, a professor of chemical engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), presented the keynote paper at the roundtable.
I Ie claimed that the country with its 2.0 billion tons of coal reserve can generate 10.000MW electricity for the next 50 years.
About the use of renewable energy option, he said it can be “kilowatt-power solution" but the country needs "megawatt-power solution”.
State Minister for Power and Energy Shamsul Haque Tuku, who addressed the roundtable as the chief guest, urged the left political partics-backed Gas Protection Committee to shun their movement against open-pit coal extraction.
Criticising Lite committee for forming a human chain, he said the government is yet to go for any offshore gas block bidding, but they are staging demonstrations.
“Don't oppose the government's programme with a
mere hint from any outside force. You should not resist tire government's programme if you really want the country's power crisis to go," the state minister told the committee.
Former state minister for power Iqbal Hasan Mahmood TUku said that the present power crisis is a longstanding issue and it was created 20 years back when the donor agencies, including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), withdrew their financial support.
He said the lengthy bureaucratic process was the main bottleneck in his endeavour to improve the power sector situation when he discharged his duty as the state minister.
He supported the Awami League government's move for setting up a 1000MW nuclear power plant.
Former state minister for
energy AKM Musharraf Hossain said the BNP-led government had made a move to go for offshore gas block bidding.
Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Power and Energy Ministry Maj Gen (retd) Subid All Bhuiyan said that his committee has submitted a recommendation to the finance ministry to make the highest allocation for the power and energy sector in the coming budget.
Former scientist of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission Yunus Akhand favoured the nuclear power plant to be set up in the country to meet the future power demand as it provides electricity at the cheapest price.
Summit Group Chairman Mohammad Aziz Khan and former director of Petrobangla Mainul Ahsan also spoke at the roundtable.