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Power Grid Bangladesh has said that commercial power from the Rooppur nuclear power plant has been delayed to 2026.
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It predicts that the transmission line will be completed by April 2025, with experimental power generation starting in July 2025.
The plant will consist of two 1200 MW units. Production from the first unit was scheduled to begin in December 2023, but was postponed until December 2024. Further delays have pushed the timeline even further. Experts say that it is highly unlikely that the 2026 target will be met, and that December 2027 is the earliest likely date. Unit 2 of the plant has a timeline one year in arrears of Unit 1.
Bangladesh’s first nuclear power plant is being constructed in Rooppur, Pabna with financial and technical assistance from Russia. Atomstroyexport, a subsidiary of Rosatom, is the project’s contractor. Delays of completion of the project have been caused by myriad complications, including financial transactions, difficulties in building major equipment and in transporting these to site, personnel shortages, the Covid-19 pandemic, have resulted in a sharp escalation of construction costs. However, under the terms of the contract, the contractor cannot increase costs.