The Power Development Board (PDB) has recently certified commercial commissioning of a 50-megawatt diesel-fired rental power plant built by local company RZ Power Ltd in Thakur-gaon.
RZ Power, a subsidiary of Rahimafrooz, commissioned its plant on August 2 after running trial operation from June 27 and generating around 6,545 mw-hours of power. In line with its contract with the government, the company was supposed to commercially launch the plant on June 4.
This is the first local rental power company to come into operation through a tender floated by the present government.
The plant consists of Mitsubishi engines that were delivered to the project site within the first two months of signing an agreement with the Power Development Board in early February, said a statement.
The project was delayed by two months due to some major setbacks like delay in delivery of some plant equipment and mobilising the equipment to the site due to bad weather. RZ Power paid the PDB a penalty of Tk 5.25 crore to compensate the delay.