The plants will produce electricity to be supplied to the national grid at an overall total overall output of more than 250MW.
Ace Alliance Power, an independent power producer (IPP), has ordered seventeen 20-cylinder Wartsila 32 engines and auxiliary units with a total output of about 150 MW.
The new power plant will operate initially on heavy fuel oil, but the engines are ready to switch to gas operation when a supply of natural gas becomes available.
The second order from the IPP Raj-Lanka Power Company includes six 20-cylinder Wartsila 32 generating sets with auxiliaries, which will produce a total output of 50MW.
The third order is from the IPP Max-Lanka Power, and will operate using six 20-cylinder Wartsila 32 engines plus auxiliary units at an output of 50 MW.
Delivery will be made on a fast-track basis in order to meet the tight construction schedules.
These three contracts follow two other power plant orders from Bangladesh that Wartsila announced earlier this week.
One of the power plants is scheduled to be operational before the end of 2012 and two are planned to be in operation by April 2013.
