Dreadful power outages back with a vengeance
Monday, 26 July 2010
FE Report
Frequent power outages are back again ahead of Ramadan as new power plants and their units began tripping afresh leading to mounting woes of the general people, sloth in business and sharp decline in industrial output.
A new unit of Ashuganj 450 megawatts (mw) power plant tripped Sunday to make longer the list of non-operational power plants due to technical glitches, senior Power Development Board (PDB) officials told the FE.
Overall electricity generation Sunday was 3,650 mw in the evening, the lowest output in the last three months.
During daytime it was around 3,400 mw.
Gas crisis led to a halt to production of around 850 mw of electricity, while technical glitches were behind loss of around 750 mw Sunday.
PDB officials said gas supply shortfall hampered generation at Rauzan, Tongi, Shahjibazar, Haripur, Shikalbaha and Baghabari plants.
Ghorashal, Ashuganj, Khulna were the major plants that witnessed halt to generation out of technical glitches.
Load-shedding in Dhaka was around 520 mw, the highest in the past three months, resulting in untold sufferings to the consumers.
Residents of Mirpur, Kalyanpur, Badda, Rampura, Khilgaon, Jatrabari, Nawabpur and parts of old Dhaka have been the worst affected of the frequent load-shedding.
Electric equipments are being damaged rampantly due to frequent load- shedding and low voltage of electricity.
The backup power systems used by the people like instant power system (IPS) are also failing to provide electricity in the absence of grid supply, said consumers.
Those systems don't get enough electricity to charge up batteries, they alleged.
Load shedding in Chittagong was 137 mw, in Khulna 121 mw, in Rajshahi 112 mw, in Comilla 90 mw, in Mymensingh 66mw, in Barisal 20 mw and in Rangpur 50 mw.
Frequent power outages are back again ahead of Ramadan as new power plants and their units began tripping afresh leading to mounting woes of the general people, sloth in business and sharp decline in industrial output.
A new unit of Ashuganj 450 megawatts (mw) power plant tripped Sunday to make longer the list of non-operational power plants due to technical glitches, senior Power Development Board (PDB) officials told the FE.
Overall electricity generation Sunday was 3,650 mw in the evening, the lowest output in the last three months.
During daytime it was around 3,400 mw.
Gas crisis led to a halt to production of around 850 mw of electricity, while technical glitches were behind loss of around 750 mw Sunday.
PDB officials said gas supply shortfall hampered generation at Rauzan, Tongi, Shahjibazar, Haripur, Shikalbaha and Baghabari plants.
Ghorashal, Ashuganj, Khulna were the major plants that witnessed halt to generation out of technical glitches.
Load-shedding in Dhaka was around 520 mw, the highest in the past three months, resulting in untold sufferings to the consumers.
Residents of Mirpur, Kalyanpur, Badda, Rampura, Khilgaon, Jatrabari, Nawabpur and parts of old Dhaka have been the worst affected of the frequent load-shedding.
Electric equipments are being damaged rampantly due to frequent load- shedding and low voltage of electricity.
The backup power systems used by the people like instant power system (IPS) are also failing to provide electricity in the absence of grid supply, said consumers.
Those systems don't get enough electricity to charge up batteries, they alleged.
Load shedding in Chittagong was 137 mw, in Khulna 121 mw, in Rajshahi 112 mw, in Comilla 90 mw, in Mymensingh 66mw, in Barisal 20 mw and in Rangpur 50 mw.