365MW power plant in Ghorashal goes out of order

station is one of the major sources of power from which DESCO receives power supply.

“Following the shutdown of a power plant in Ghorashal station, power supply to DESCO has come down to 750MW on Saturday against the demand of 1,038MW,” the DESCO chief executive told UNB.

As a result, he said, the DESCO had to go for about 278MW of load shedding to manage the situation.

Meanwhile, officials of the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) informed that 365MW unit -7 of the Ghorashal power station went out of order at 4:49am on Saturday triggering a huge shortage in power supply.

Shamim Hasan, BPDB director, public relations, however, said the power supply situation was better on Saturday as there was projection of scheduled load shedding of 1,242MW while the projected generation was 12,758MW against a demand of 14,000MW.

The DPDC in a message through its official website noted that there is no scheduled load shedding in its area which supplies electricity mainly south, south-east, south-west and central parts of Dhaka city.

The government started daily one hour area-based load-shedding across Bangladesh from Tuesday in a bid to tackle the ongoing power crisis.