Bangladesh Economic Zone Authority (BEZA) has planned to develop a solar power zone for generating at least 1,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity, which will be the country’s biggest hub for solar power.

The authority has started the process of acquiring around 4,000 acres of land at Baher Char in Chandpur district to set up the solar zone, said Executive Chairman Paban Chowdhury of BEZA.

The zone could be named after Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, provided that the approval is given from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the BEZA chief said.

Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and Power China have shown interest in developing the solar zone. BPDB would work on 1,000 acres of land, keeping the remaining 3,000 acres for Power China for setting up the solar zone.

He hoped that the development of the solar zone would begin soon so it could start generating electricity from late next year in phases.

Chowdhury said that unlike conventional power plant, setting up of solar power system does not take much time. Establishing of a solar power zone would also ensure the better use of sandy char land, which was not suitable for cropping.

A major percent of the electricity generated through this would be supplied to the national grid to help meet the growing demand for electricity, said BEZA chief.

Besides developing the mega solar power, BEZA also plans to give the Power Division nearly 2,000 acres of land at Mirersharai Economic Zone in Chittagong to develop another solar hub for producing 600MW electricity.

Bangladesh is now producing 15,379MW of electricity to supply to 2.49 crore customers across the country. Nearly 45 lakh households in thousands of villages of the country also got solar power in the past few years.

The Bangladesh government targets generating 24,000MW of electricity in 2021 and 60,000MW in 20041 for meeting the increasing demand. At least 10 percent of the demand would be met from renewable sources including solar power.

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