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 Customer
In 1997 the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) was faced with the challenge to ease a critically short power supply in the Western Zone of Bangladesh. The electrical demand had been consistently higher than available capacity, and generation costs in the area had been very high due to the low efficiency of existing equipment and the heavy use of expensive, low-availability fuel. In October 1997, BPDB signed a Power Purchase Agreement with Khulna Power Company Ltd. for a 110 MWe floating baseload power plant at Khulna, to help ease the electricity shortage.
Wärtsilä solution
The Khulna plant consists of two Wärtsilä floating baseload plants named Tiger I and Tiger III designed for continuous operation and intended for electricity production. Wärtsilä is also providing operational and maintenance services for the Khulna plant during the duration of BPDB's power purchase agreement. The contract includes all aspects of operations and maintenance, which fixed the long-term operations and maintenance costs for BPDB, and absorbed a good portion of the operating risk as well enabling BPDB to concentrate on other aspects of their power business.
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| Total electric output: |
110 MWe |
| Electrical efficiency: |
43.5 % |
| Engine type: |
19 x Wärtsilä 18V32LN |
| Year commissioned: |
October 1998 |
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