Solar Power Plant (Sutiakhali)

Sutiakhali Solar Power Plant along the River Brahmaputra in Mymensingh will generate 50 megawatts of electricity, which will be supplied to the national grid. Under the government’s Seventh Five-Year Plan, HDFC Sinpower Ltd is implementing the project in a joint venture of Bangladesh, Malaysia and Singapore at Sutiakhali char land in Mymensingh. The construction of this eco-friendly solar power project at a cost of Tk800 crore on 174 acres of land in Sutiakhali, a char area of ​​Mymensingh’s Gauripur Upazila, is now almost complete. An executive engineer of the Power Development Board (PDB) supervised the project under private investment and government supervision. According to the government’s plan, a target was set to generate 10% of the electricity used in the country through solar power by 2020.