Bangladesh: Analyzing Hasina era Adani Power Deal

[Thinking]

BD should cancel this deal and we can all move on. I suppose it is part of the contract.

 

[BananaRepublic]

Any reason why you
Not showing your country flags?

You guys really are fusspots!

You can set my flags to British Bangladeshi - if you insist!

 

[BananaRepublic]

What makes you the international spokesperson for the majority? Now discuss the topic and not the poster……

The heavy handed behaviour you lot have towards anyone who disagrees with you is narcissistic.

Whilst your buddies can go round using vulgarity and personal abuse.

 

[Musings]

You guys really are fusspots!

You can set my flags to British Bangladeshi - if you insist!

Not really. There are rules - be a good kid and follow them

 

[Musings]

The heavy handed behaviour you lot have towards anyone who disagrees with you is narcissistic.

Whilst your buddies can go round using vulgarity and personal abuse.

Once again - stay on topic - next post action will be taken

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@LeonBlack08

UKB dada has provided the source- a grand total of 40 MW against the 1000 plus that Adani is supplying. And what happens in winters when there is little power?

Regards

 

[BananaRepublic]

@LeonBlack08

UKB dada has provided the source- a grand total of 40 MW against the 1000 plus that Adani is supplying. And what happens in winters when there is little power?

Regards

You have to balance so many things in order to form an energy policy.

1. Cost - unit cost and sink cost.
2. Pollution - impact on environment and people
3. National Security - what’s the minimum you need to run critical stuff
4. Reliability - is it available 24/7
5. Volatility - can it be turned on and off and what’s the cost of idleness

And a lot more.

Internet trolls, and the naive fools who follow them, can make sensational claims by picking any of the above in isolation.

We have them here in the U.K. as well.

Far left will cry about the cost and risk of nuclear.

Far right decry the unreliability of wind and solar.

Bangladesh being a small resource poor country doesn’t really have much choice.

Hasina was the first person in BD history to solve the load shedding problem.

Which enabled garments, in particular, to power ahead.

 

[Fallstuff]

Adani type deals has seen the last of it.
Just think about the cost of sending goods to NE !
Bangladesh just cancelled a diesel pipeline from India to Bangladesh. So things are in the pipeline, just not the diesel pipeline!!!!

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@LeonBlack08

We have them here in the U.K. as well. Far left will cry about the cost and risk of nuclear.

You Brits are still lucky. The Germans have already been shafted by their greens.

Regards

 

[LeonBlack08]

@LeonBlack08

UKB dada has provided the source- a grand total of 40 MW against the 1000 plus that Adani is supplying. And what happens in winters when there is little power?

Regards

You are deviating from the topic, but I will entertain you just this one time to show you the fact (which you could have simply googled) but won't have further discussion regarding this issue here. You can open a new thread if you want to discuss more.

@UKBengali posted about a small project with Nepal. There is another deal in the pipeline with Bhutan for 1.5 GW (Source: https://kuenselonline.com/bhutan-and-bangladesh-finalising-electricity-trade/)

It needed Indian sign-off because this is a tripatriate deal. Understanding is that it was in the final stage. India got 4 more transit corridors and a rail corridor recently, which was probably in exchange for this deal with Bhutan.

As for your question on dry season - already explained in post 217 why from risk management perspective there will always be a mix of multiple sources of power in portfolio.

 

[kambhakt]

If you have read all the posts in this thread you will see that the comparison was always amongst coal based plants and the argument was about whether Bangladesh needed it or not, since we have excess capacity locally.

In that case why is BD unhappy that Adani has cut power by 50%. You should be happy and you can run your coal power plants at full capacity.

 

[Cryptonian]

Adani type deals has seen the last of it.
Just think about the cost of sending goods to NE !
Bangladesh just cancelled a diesel pipeline from India to Bangladesh. So things are in the pipeline, just not the diesel pipeline!!!!

Pipeline deals take years for fruition. Just few month Bangladeshi Hilsa sellers made the Yunus govt to backtrack on the Hilsa ban. This govt without mandate won't be able to walk long.

 

[kambhakt]

Adani type deals has seen the last of it.
Just think about the cost of sending goods to NE !
Bangladesh just cancelled a diesel pipeline from India to Bangladesh. So things are in the pipeline, just not the diesel pipeline!!!!

It cancelled all LNG pipeline and LNG regassification deals including Summit Group and Excelerate Energy.

 

[kambhakt]

You are deviating from the topic, but I will entertain you just this one time to show you the fact (which you could have simply googled) but won't have further discussion regarding this issue here. You can open a new thread if you want to discuss more.

@UKBengali posted about a small project with Nepal. There is another deal in the pipeline with Bhutan for 1.5 GW (Source: https://kuenselonline.com/bhutan-and-bangladesh-finalising-electricity-trade/)

It needed Indian sign-off because this is a tripatriate deal. Understanding is that it was in the final stage. India got 4 more transit corridors and a rail corridor recently, which was probably in exchange for this deal with Bhutan.

As for your question on dry season - already explained in post 217 why from risk management perspective there will always be a mix of multiple sources of power in portfolio.

The article says that Bangladesh wishes to import 1.5GW from Bhutan. It does not say that Bhutan has 1.5 GW available for export to Bangladesh. Bhutan hydro generation capacity is 2.3 GW. Most of it is already being committed to India. This electricity is available only in summer months. In fact India exports electricity to Bhutan in winter. The net import/export of electricity between India and Bhutan is almost 0. Bhutan has just started exporting more than it imports. Previously it was electricity deficient. It would import more and export less.

Neither Tripura, Bhutan or Nepal has electricity to spare for you to say that there is no need of the Adani power.

 

[Alter_Ego]

@LeonBlack08

We have them here in the U.K. as well. Far left will cry about the cost and risk of nuclear.

You Brits are still lucky. The Germans have already been shafted by their greens.

Regards

They are deluded bunch.
In Norway greens are trying to end the oil production in the Norwegian shelf.
Quite ironic, because oil industry supports the very existence of the welfare state.