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Deal signed on wind power mapping

Star Business Report
The government yesterday struck a deal with an Indian company to find out Bangladesh's potential in generating electricity from wind energy.
India's ReGen Powertech Pvt Ltd, a manufacturer of gearless wind turbine generators, and Bangladesh's Power Division signed a memorandum of understanding at the Biddut Bhaban in Dhaka.
ReGen will conduct wind mapping in five coastal regions such as Feni, Cox's Bazar, Anawara of Chittagong, and Kuakata and Khepupara of Patuakhali, at its own cost to take stock of the wind power potential.
The mapping, which will find out wind velocity in those areas, will run for the next one year. Once the best location is chosen, the company will set up a wind turbine-based power plant at a capacity of 15 megawatt on a pilot basis.
"If everything goes right, Bangladesh will have the wind-based power plant next year," saidTawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, energy adviser to the prime minister.
Madhusudan Khemka, managing director of ReGen Powertech, said Bangladesh has huge potential in wind energy, thanks to its vast coastlines.
"After mapping, we will set up a 15-MW wind power project. Once the project runs successfully, Bangladesh will have the potential to produce hundreds of thousands of megawatts of electricity from the natural source," he said.
The latest initiative will revive Bangladesh's efforts to produce much-needed electricity from renewable energy resources. Its previous experiment with wind power almost went in vain.
The Power Development Board (PDB) set up two wind-power projects in Feni and Kutubdia more than a decade ago. "Those two are almost in the museum," Chowdhury told reporters after the signing ceremony.
A PDB team is working in Kutubdia to revive the project, which has a capacity of 1MW, Power Secretary Md Abul Kalam Azad said.
Bangladesh is under tremendous pressure for generating power from expensive imports amid drying up of gas reserves, which now accounts for about 82 percent of total electricitygeneration, according to PDB.
"So, the government has turned its focus on renewable energy sources,
considering the future needs of energy," said Taposh Kumar Roy, an additional secretary of the power ministry.
He said Bangladesh cannot advance in wind power as it does not have data mapping. "As a result, investors do not come to Bangladesh. PDB floated a tender for 50 to 200 MW projects but did not get a response."
Although Bangladesh will not contribute to the mapping financially, it will have equal rights to the feasibility study, data and report. The PDB engineers will have an opportunity to work with the mapping.
The deal did not give an idea on
the tariff on electricity as it will depend on the velocity and availability ofwind power.
ReGen Powertech is a licencee of the Vensys wind turbine technology of Germany. The wind power technology is used in India, Latin American, North America and China.
Bangladesh now produces about 75MW of electricity from renewable energy resources, said a PDB official.
Muhammad Enamul Huq, state minister for power and energy, also spoke. Khemka and Mohammad Alauddin, deputy secretary of the Power Division, signed the deal.