Work starts to build country’s first ever waste-based power plant

Chinese firm China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) has recently started the pilling works at the Aminbazar site in Dhaka to develop the country’s first ever waste-based power plant.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) officials hoped that the CMEC will complete the power plant construction within the stipulated time to start the power generation from July 2026.

"The Chinese sponsor have mobilised huge equipment and manpower to implement the project within the deadline", Captain Mohammad Fida Hasan, Chief Waste Management Officer of the DNCC, said.

They have been doing the pilling work round the clock, he added.

He admitted that the project was delayed due to delay in handing over of the site to the CNEC. "We had required huge time to prepare the land for the pilling works".

A source, however, claimed the funding crisis was another main reason behind the delay. The recent visit of the Prime Minister to China has played a vital role in expediting the financial closing of the project, it said.

News agency UNB reported that the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) signed an agreement with the CMEC on December 1 in 2021 to set up the country’s first ever waste-based power plant.

The power plant will generate 42.5 MW of electricity from the garbage in the capital city.