Adani meets Bangladesh PM after the group starts India’s First Transnational Power Project

Adani Group Chairman, Gautam Adani paid a visit to Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Saturday after the full load commencement of power supply to Bangladesh from the group’s thermal power plant in Godda, India.

The new project of the conglomerate will mark the group's entry into transnational power projects. This project will also commence India’s first commissioned transnational power project where 100 per cent of the generated power is supplied to another nation.



Adani Power Jharkhand Ltd (APJL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Adani Power Ltd, will supply 1,496 MW from the Godda USCTPP under the PPA with the Bangladesh Power Development Board, executed in November 2017 for a period of 25 years, via a 400 kV dedicated transmission system connected to the Bangladesh grid.

The subsidiary completed the dependable capacity test for the Godda plant on 12 July.

The particular test is a mandatory requirement under the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Bangladesh. The test was conducted over a period of six hours to assess the functioning of the plant with two units with a total capacity of 1600 MW.

On 6 April, the first unit of 800 MW capacity of the Godda plant, in Jharkhand, began commercial operations. The second unit, also of 800 MW capacity, followed on 26 June.

"Electricity supplied from Godda will have a positive impact on Bangladesh’s power situation by replacing costly power generated by using liquid fuel," Adani Group said in its statement

Adani Group has listed issues such as the establishing 105 km-long 400 kV Double Circuit Transmission Line, constructing a private railway line and water pipeline from the Ganga to be some of the hindrances they came across in this project.

The Godda power plant will also be first in India to have started operations with 100% flue gas desulphurization (FGD), selective catalytic reconverter (SCR) and zero water discharge for minimizing emissions and for environment friendly operations in alignment with the norms set by the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change of the Government of India.