Energy Bangla

After remaining shut for seven days due to a mechanical fault, one unit of the Barapukuria coal-based thermal power plant in Parbatipur, Dinajpur, has resumed production. Power generation began on Sunday afternoon. The first unit of the 525-megawatt power plant, with a capacity of 125 megawatts, has come back online. Initially, the unit will produce 50 megawatts of electricity per day. To keep it operational, the plant will require 800... »

Electricity generation at the Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant in Dinajpur has come to a complete Shutdown due to mechanical faults. Chief Engineer Abu Bakar Siddique told bdnews24.com that power generation at Unit 1 stopped on Sunday morning after a boiler pipe burst. Following the shutdown of Unit 3 earlier, around 50 megawatts of electricity from Unit 1 had been supplied to the national grid. Earlier, on the morning of October... »

Auto-rickshaw drivers in Chapainawabganj demonstrated on Sunday, surrounding the Rural Electrification Cooperative office to protest the decision to convert their electricity bills from residential to commercial rates. The protest was suspended after assurances from the General Manager of the Cooperative. Law enforcement personnel, including police and Ansar members, were deployed to maintain order. Around two hundred auto-rickshaw drivers from Hayat Mor, Debinagar, Shajahanpur, Sundarpur, Charbaghdanga, and Islampur areas of Sadar... »

The intelligence agency has reported that officials and employees of the Palli Bidyut Samity are observing a mass leave program in an attempt to sabotage the upcoming national parliamentary election. After a meeting at the Secretariat on Thursday, Adviser of the Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources Ministry, Muhammad Fauzul Kabir Khan, mentioned this intelligence information and said that the government is being tolerated with their demands. Though if they do... »

The Power Division has instructed officials and employees of the Palli Bidyut Samiti (PBS) to withdraw their ongoing work stoppage and return to duty immediately. It has been clearly stated that failure to resume work within 24 hours will result in legal action under the relevant laws. The directive emphasizes that uninterrupted electricity supply is an essential service. Any disruption or obstruction to this service is a punishable offense under... »

With a steady rise in electricity consumption across the country, the interim government has now been attaching priority to ensuring stable power supply at affordable rates. “After assuming the office, the government prioritized stable power supply across the country and it is now very much stable. We’re now working to ensure affordable rate for electricity,” Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Adviser Dr Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan told BSS here today.... »

Residents of Parbatipur in Dinajpur have staged a human chain demanding a stop to the installation of prepaid electricity meters. The half-hour-long human chain was held on Sunday at Parbatipur Dhaka Mor area, where speeches were delivered by Abu Taher Hossain, Oliul Islam, Mahfizul Islam Masum, Asaduzzaman Rohan, Wazed Dulal, and Zakir Hossain on behalf of the Conscious Citizens’ Committee. Speakers said that since digital electricity meters are already in... »

The 525 MW coal-fired Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant in Parbatipur, Dinajpur, has resumed operation. After remaining shut for 10 days due to mechanical faults, the plant’s third unit returned to production at 8 p.m. on Wednesday (July 30). With the third unit generating 275 MW, about 150–160 MW of electricity is being supplied to the national grid. To keep the unit operational, around 1,600 metric tons of coal are required... »

Permission has been granted to seek legal assistance to review all domestic and foreign agreements for setting up power plants. This initiative has been taken considering the Unequal contract. The Power Division was given permission to seek legal assistance at a meeting of the Advisory purchase Committee at the Secretariat on Tuesday. Finance Advisor Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed presided over the meeting. Later, the financial adviser told reporters that during the... »

bdnews: Lights have begun to flicker back with electricity gradually being restored after large swathes of Dhaka were left without power for about two hours following a grid failure in Rampura. The Power Grid Bangladesh PLC (PGCB) said it had started to resume power supply at 11:45pm on Sunday. The associated grids were brought back under power supply after repairing the “unexpectedly occurred fault” at the Rampura 230/132kV Grid Substation,... »