UPGDCL’s Power Plant inside Chittagong Export Processing Zone is situated over an area of 6033.80 sq. meters, leased to the Project Company for 30 years under a Land Lease Agreement between UPGDCL and BEPZA, entered on 16 May 2007. The power plant was established to supply power to the industries inside Chittagong EPZ under a Power Supply Agreement dated 16 May 2007 between BEPZA and UPGDCL. At present the plant has five (5) Wärtsilä Finland 20V34SG engines each having capacity of 8.73 MW and three (3) Rolls-Royce Norway B35:40V20AG2 engines each having capacity of 9.34 MW resulting in a combined output of 72 MW. The plant also have 3 Exhaust Gas Boilers supplied by Khan SPP having a steam production capacity of 4 ton per hours (TPH) per boiler, fitted to the plant’s Rolls-Royce engines. The total steam production capacity of Chittagong EPZ is 12 TPH. Natural Gas is the fuel for the engines initially supplied by Bakhrabad Gas Distribution Co. Ltd. under a Gas Supply Agreement signed on 9 July 2009, currently supplied by Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Co. Ltd. under a Gas Supply Agreement effective from 15 May 2013 for the term of the Power Supply Agreement signed between BEPZA and UPGDCL.
