DHAKA: The government Sunday decided to arrange an investment conference here on July 3 for attracting local and foreign investors in the power and energy sector.

The decision came from a preparatory meeting of the Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry with State Minister Enamul Haque in the chair in the conference room of the Ministry.  

In the meantime, the government has held three road shows in London, Singapore and New York to draw attention of foreign investors to the power-hunting power sector.

Following the road shows the government is going to organize the conference and it will present some new projects along with the projects presented abroad, said an official after the meeting.

The projects that the ministry going to present are four coal-based power stations with a total capacity of 500 megawatts, second unit of the 450-MW Bibiana power station and Meghnagat power station, 150-MW Bhola power station, 450-MW Sirajganj power station and 100-MW furnace oil-based Kaliakoir and Savar power stations.

The ministry will also request the probable investors to invest in the four solar power projects of 10-MW capacity, 100-MW wind-power plants and in an LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) terminal, which would be used to import LNG to mitigate the gas shortage in the gas-based power stations.

Few other projects like Power Transmission Line and Gas Transmission Line will be presented at the conference.

The Power Division, Energy Division, Law Ministry, Environment Ministry, Petrobangla, PDB and the National Board of Revenue (NBR) will set up stalls in the conference.

The meeting was attended, among others, by PM’s adviser for power Towfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, Press Secretary to the Power Ministry Abul Kalam Azad, Chairman of Power Development Board (PDB) SM Alamgir Kabir and Chairman of Petrobangla Dr. Hossain Mansur.

BDST: 2041 Hrs. June 13, 2010
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