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Prospect of producing 1000 MW electricity from Biogas bright
New Nation Desk
There is prospect of producing 1,000MW electricity from Biogas and if the opportunity is utilized the growing shortage of electricity could be solved in this power-starved country.
The government agency Infrastructure Development Company Limited sources said Bangladesh has 215,000 poultry farms and 15,000 cattle farms. Establishing biogas plants in these farms, electricity could be generated. So far 35,000 biogas plants have been established across the country and these plants are producing gas, which is being used for cooking purposes in the rural areas.
The agency has set a target of establishing 60,000 biogas plants by 2012. One plant produces on an average 94.22 squire feet gas. At present 33 lakh squire feet biogas is being produced in the country daily.
The livestock directorate said the country had two crore 29 lakh cattle in 2007-08 and the number of buffalo was 1260,000. The agency said they got eight crore tons of cow dung in 2004.
With this cow dung, 30 lakh biogas plants could be run. One biogas plant costs 28,000 crore taka, generator for production of electricity costs between taka 30,000 and 50,000 and other costs 6,000 taka.
One bio-gas based plant could be set up at a cost between 64,000 to 84,000 taka and the production of electricity depends on availability of cow dung.
