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Bangladesh eyes to import 3,000 MW power from China
SAM Staff, August 16, 2017
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State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid leading a five-member Bangladesh delegation in a bilateral meeting held in Myanmar’s capital Nay Pyi Taw.
Bangladesh has got an opportunity of importing electricity from China as the country has recently proposed a 3,000 MW power export to Bangladesh from Kunming, the capital of its southwest province Yunnan. According to the proposal of China, Bangladesh may import the electricity directly from Kunming using Myanmar as a transit route.

Bangladesh is also expecting to import gas and electricity from Myanmar along with constructing a trans-border electric grid connection with them to import electricity from Myanmar and China. A five-member delegation led by the state minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has been visiting Myanmar for building a collaboration in energy and power sector of both the countries.

Kunming is the capital of Yunnan province of China and is about 1,260 kilometers away from Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka. Earlier, Chinese Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization proposed to supply 3,000MW electricity to Bangladesh from Kunming.

The recent visit of the Bangladeshi delegation may open the window for Bangladesh of importing power from China using the trans-border grid connectivity of Myanmar. Myanmar is also heavily depended on China in the sector of power and energy. Experts suggest that, importing power from China through Myanmar may result in mutual benefits for all the participating countries.

Besides, Myanmar has expressed its interest to form a ‘joint working group’ comprising of professionals from both the countries. Myanmar’s power and energy minister U Win Khaing has proposed to form the working group.

Currently, Bangladesh is importing 660 MW of power from India through trans-border grid connectivity and also on the way to import 3,600 MW of more power from both private and government sector in the near future. Besides, the government is maintaining dialogues with other neighboring countries like Nepal and Bhutan to import power from them.

The ministers discussed different issues of bilateral cooperation in the power and energy sector. Nasrul Hamid said that both the economies would be strengthened once cooperation in energy and power sector was increased.

SOURCE ENERGY BANGLA
http://southasianmonitor.com/2017/08/16/bd-eyes-import-3000-mw-power-china/
 
Bangladesh eyes to import 3,000 MW power from China
SAM Staff, August 16, 2017
elctricity-from-china.jpg

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid leading a five-member Bangladesh delegation in a bilateral meeting held in Myanmar’s capital Nay Pyi Taw.
Bangladesh has got an opportunity of importing electricity from China as the country has recently proposed a 3,000 MW power export to Bangladesh from Kunming, the capital of its southwest province Yunnan. According to the proposal of China, Bangladesh may import the electricity directly from Kunming using Myanmar as a transit route.

Bangladesh is also expecting to import gas and electricity from Myanmar along with constructing a trans-border electric grid connection with them to import electricity from Myanmar and China. A five-member delegation led by the state minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has been visiting Myanmar for building a collaboration in energy and power sector of both the countries.

Kunming is the capital of Yunnan province of China and is about 1,260 kilometers away from Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka. Earlier, Chinese Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization proposed to supply 3,000MW electricity to Bangladesh from Kunming.

The recent visit of the Bangladeshi delegation may open the window for Bangladesh of importing power from China using the trans-border grid connectivity of Myanmar. Myanmar is also heavily depended on China in the sector of power and energy. Experts suggest that, importing power from China through Myanmar may result in mutual benefits for all the participating countries.

Besides, Myanmar has expressed its interest to form a ‘joint working group’ comprising of professionals from both the countries. Myanmar’s power and energy minister U Win Khaing has proposed to form the working group.

Currently, Bangladesh is importing 660 MW of power from India through trans-border grid connectivity and also on the way to import 3,600 MW of more power from both private and government sector in the near future. Besides, the government is maintaining dialogues with other neighboring countries like Nepal and Bhutan to import power from them.

The ministers discussed different issues of bilateral cooperation in the power and energy sector. Nasrul Hamid said that both the economies would be strengthened once cooperation in energy and power sector was increased.

SOURCE ENERGY BANGLA
http://southasianmonitor.com/2017/08/16/bd-eyes-import-3000-mw-power-china/
:yahoo::bunny::cheers: @Aung Zaya @Chinese-Dragon @ChineseTiger1986 and others
 
Importing electricity is self destructive proposition when we are suffering from trade deficit. BD should pay more attention to coal based power plant domestically.
 
is it not cheaper to build your own than import from India/china?
Yes, it is cheaper to produce domestically. But, because we need power as soon as possible, therefore. a ready supply from India/China helps us. BD requirement for power will not exhaust even it gets supply from China. So, we will keep on building many more power plants.
 
What China orders Myanmar gives.:D

3GW from China will show everyone who BD is aligning with.

@Nilgiri
@Aung Zaya

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nope. China also willing to sell us electricity too. if we accept this offer the project can accelerate. if not , this project will not be economical and the price tag can be high as it will include facilities , transmission lines for over 1000 km and of course there will be fee for passing Myanmar too.
 
nope. China also willing to sell us electricity too. if we accept this offer the project can accelerate. if not , this project will not be economical and the price tag can be high as it will include facilities , transmission lines for over 1000 km and of course there will be fee for passing Myanmar too.

Since Myanmar is short of power, therefore, it is obvious that it will take the bite that will decrease the total transmission line erection cost. The transmission line project will also be supplemented by bD desire to purchase gas from Myanmar, as has been pointed by the opening thread.

I think, this BD-China-Myanmar move is to become a part of China's OBOR initiative that proposes also cooperation among the nations in different region. I see this initiative is meaningful that the Chinese are apprehensive about BD leaning too much toward India for its power. China certainly does not appreciate that BD depends upon India for its power.

3000 mW is a very large amount of electricity. I wish its success. However, some Chinese member may tell us of the source of this power. Is it hydro-electric or fossil fuel power from Kunming?
 
Since Myanmar is short of power, therefore, it is obvious that it will take the bite that will decrease the total transmission line erection cost. The transmission line project will also be supplemented by bD desire to purchase gas from Myanmar, as has been pointed by the opening thread.

I think, this BD-China-Myanmar move is to become a part of China's OBOR initiative that proposes also cooperation among the nations in different region. I see this initiative is meaningful that the Chinese are apprehensive about BD leaning too much toward India for its power. China certainly does not appreciate that BD depends upon India for its power.

3000 mW is a very large amount of electricity. I wish its success. However, some Chinese member may tell us of the source of this power. Is it hydro-electric or fossil fuel power from Kunming?
it's in considering state. and even if we decide to import , we dont need many. it will contribute just negelectable amount in erection cost. but as my personal view , i hope this agreement happen.
but selling gas to foreign countries already rejected by DASSK and MPs and we need gas many more for our up coming gas fuel power plants. so i bet this project will get reject.
 
What China orders Myanmar gives.:D

Order is certainly not an appropriate word. Order is not practiced in foreign relationship and the word may hurt the feeling of others. It is kind of degrading a country.

it's in considering state. and even if we decide to import , we dont need many. it will contribute just negligible amount in erection cost. but as my personal view , i hope this agreement happen.
but selling gas to foreign countries already rejected by DASSK and MPs and we need gas many more for our up coming gas fuel power plants. so i bet this project will get reject.

Thank you for hoping the best for the proposed deal. Click the link below to see Myanmar needs 4530 mW of power by 2020 on top of its present capacity around 4,000 mW. However, when 2020 comes, Myanmar may find the projection was short and another 2,000 mW is necessary because of many future economic activities remain unforeseen now. So, you cannot just say that Myanmar demand is small, so the Chinese electricity is not needed in good amount.

On the availability of gas, I just hope Myanmar will discover a large gas field from where BD can be supplied.

http://elevenmyanmar.com/local/myanmar-needs-another-4530-megawatts-electricity-2020
 
Importing electricity is self destructive proposition when we are suffering from trade deficit. BD should pay more attention to coal based power plant domestically.

Importing electricity is certainly not a self-destructive proposition because this power will help the country to enlarge its production base. With more production, BD will export more and earn many times more foreign currency than the purchasing cost of power from India and now China.
 

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