Load shedding grips country
Courtesy New Age 9/2/09
Another power plant closes
Power outages turned severe Sunday evening following further drop in generation as the 70MW Baghabari power plant was closed because of ‘gas shortage’.
The load shedding reached almost 1000MW at 7:00pm on Sunday as the Power Development Board’s generation came down to 3178MW against the official demand of around 4150MW.
Officials of the PDB said that the closure of Baghabari power plant due to low pressure of gas and the tripping of 360MW Haripur independent power plant on Thursday due to a technical fault had resulted in a huge gap between the demand and supply.
The PDB generated around 3300MW at 7:00pm on Saturday against the demand of 4050MW. The demand of electricity on Saturday was low as the day fell in the weekend.
According to the PDB officials, the demand of electricity rose on Sunday as the weather got warmer on the eve of summer.
The actual demand of electricity, however, should be around 4500MW at present while it will rise to over 5700MW during the summer as per the power system master plan, approved by the government.
Most of the areas of the capital and other parts of the country faced two to four hours of load shedding Sunday evening following the fall in generation.
The Dhaka Power Distribution Company which supplies electricity to the capital and the neighbouring areas had received 1280MW of electricity from the PDB before 6:00pm. The PDB asked the company at around 7:00pm to supply 1160MW following the drop in generation. The demand of electricity in the city is around 1600MW.
Sources in the PDB said that the current spell of power shortage was likely to worsen in the coming days with the rise in demand. Besides, the Haripur IPP is unlikely to come into operation before March.
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