200MW to 400 MW power shortfall

UNB, Dhaka

Chief adviser’s special assistant for power and energy ministry M Tamim on Sunday said the power generation in the country would increase from the end of this month.

He said this while addressing a discussion meeting organised by the PGCB Diploma Engineers Association on electricity transmission at BCIC Auditorium.

The PGCB chairman, Khwaja Golam Ahmed, and the managing director, Harunur Rashid, also spoke at the programme. The chief adviser’s special assistant said the country was presently experiencing load shedding of 200-400MW due to short supply of gas.

He said the daily power generation was between 3,400MW and 3,800MW across the country. The BUET professor-turned caretaker government’s functionary noted that the government now has to supply gas to fertiliser factories on priority basis for undisrupted production of the agri-input.

But, he said, the fertiliser factories will not require huge gas after the end of March and that gas supply will be diverted to power plants that will help generate 300MW more electricity.

He said short supply of power has become acute in recent days due the shutdown of a 125MW unit of Barapukuria power plant. Tamim said the power generation would continue to increase in the days ahead as a number of new power plants would go into operation.

Some rental power plants are among them, which are supposed to come into operation in May next. Emphasising the need for having a long-term plan for the power sector, he said the government had taken initiatives to set up some large power plants in the country.

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