It is reported that the Bangladesh government is planning to generate 5,000 megawatt of power by using Underground Coal Gasification technology in the country deepest coalfield of Jamalganj.

As per report, the plan is being considered as Australian company Mitchell Group, USA based Clean Coal Ltd and two other companies from Australia and Canada have proposed the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources to install the quantity of electricity there.

Australian company Mitchel Group recently submitted a proposal to the PM Power and Energy Adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury to install the mega power plant. According to the proposal, they want to install a 10MW plant in any coal field in the country on experimental basis.

The proposal reads “If you permit us then we would install a 400MW power plant under UGC method by 2015.”

Earlier the USA based Clean Coal Ltd proposed to install such power plant within 3 to 5 years after signing agreement on build own operate basis.

(Sourced from www.energybangla.com)