Connecting small Solar IPP for offshore tendering
The Sri Lankan government has ambitious plans to expose small independent power producers for offshore tendering.
“We want to help them tender for government contracts in other countries,” Power and Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody told The Sunday Times Business on Thursday. The minister has already had discussions in this regard with Bangladesh. Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, the advisor for the Bangladesh Ministry of Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources, who was in Colombo to attend the 2-day, Seventh Assembly of the International Solar Alliance, which started on Wednesday, had met with Mr. Jayakody on Thursday at the ministry and had discussions on rooftop solar, top officials said. He said that Mr. Khan was impressed with the way Sri Lanka has done its rooftop solar and had wanted local solar independent power producers to bid for a government tender on rooftop solar in Bangladesh.
Head table at the conference. Pic by M.A. Pushpa Kumara.
At a session at the Solar Alliance Assembly, he said that Bangladesh is interested in the regional integration of power.
“We generated 300 megawatts of electricity in Bangladesh this year, and about 10 to 15 per cent of that energy is from solar power. Nepal exports electricity to Bangladesh during the winter and Bangladesh exports electricity to Nepal during shortfalls. This arrangement, facilitated by India’s grid, presents significant investment opportunities in Nepal’s hydropower sector. There are many investment opportunities in this,” he said. A trilateral agreement exists between Nepal, Bangladesh, and India’s NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam, allowing Nepal to export 40 MW of electricity to Bangladesh via India’s grid. This forum also saw several state officials from different countries in the energy sector declaring an interest in working with Sri Lanka in the energy sector and also intensely eyeing regional connectivity.
Officials representing the Nepal government told The Sunday Times Business on the sidelines of the forum that Nepal has plans to export power to countries such as China, Myanmar and Sri Lanka through India. “Arrangements with India and China will be bilateral, while Sri Lanka and Myanmar will be tripartite,” one official said.
Ghanshyam Prasad, Chairperson at Central Electricity Authority (CEA) in Delhi, India, said that India is in discussion with Sri Lanka and Myanmar to trade in electricity. India is trying each month to integrate at least three to four gigawatts of transmission lines, he said, noting that India has changed transmission planning and is now doing potential base planning for solar power.
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