UPGDCL’s Power Plant inside Dhaka Export Processing Zone is situated over an area of 6,125.13 sq. meters, leased to the Project Company for 30 years under a Land Lease Agreement between UPGDCL and BEPZA, entered on 6 May 2007. The power plant was established to supply power to the industries inside Dhaka EPZ under a Power Supply Agreement dated 6 May 2007 between BEPZA and UPGDCL. At present the plant has four (4) Wärtsilä Finland 20V34SG engines each having capacity of 8.73 MW, five (5) Rolls-Royce Norway B35:40V20AG2 engines each having capacity of 9.34 MW and two (2) MTU Germany AOE20V4000L62 engines each having a capacity of 1.96 MW resulting in a combined output of 86 MW. The plant also have 2 Exhaust Gas Boilers supplied by Khan SPP having a steam production capacity of 4 ton per hours (TPH) per boiler, fitted to two of the plant’s Rolls-Royce engines. The total steam production capacity of Dhaka EPZ is 8 TPH. Power generated at 11 kV is being distributed at 11 kV and 33 kV by UPGDCL’s own 20 km and 30 km long distribution lines, respectively. Natural Gas is the fuel for the engines supplied by Titas Gas Transmission & Distribution Co. Ltd. under a Gas Supply Agreement signed on 16 November 2008 and on 27 February 2014 (effective from 1 August 2009) for a term of the Power Supply Agreement signed between BEPZA and UPGDCL
