Ashuganj Power Plant Restarts North Unit Within Six Hours After Grid Fault
Power generation from one of the two halted units at the Ashuganj Power Station, located on the banks of the Meghna River in Brahmanbaria, resumed within nearly six hours after engineers swiftly repaired a technical fault in the national grid line.
At the same time, another unit that had remained shut for a long period due to a shortage of gas has also resumed electricity generation, said Executive Director (Operations and Maintenance) of the Ashuganj Power Plant, Mohammad Abdul Majid.
He said the 450-megawatt North Unit has already been restarted. However, it will take at least three days to resume operations of the 400-megawatt East Unit. In the meantime, gas allocated for the East Unit is being used to generate electricity from another 50-megawatt unit, which is currently supplying power to the national grid.
Earlier, authorities of the power station confirmed that production from the two affected units resumed at around 8:15 pm on Friday, 13 March.
Sources at the Ashuganj Power Plant said that around 2:30 pm, a sudden fault occurred in the national grid line, causing the 450-megawatt North Unit and the 400-megawatt East Unit—both connected to the grid—to shut down. The plant’s technical team immediately began work to restore operations. After the fault was repaired, the 450-megawatt North Unit returned to production at around 8:15 pm following a shutdown lasting nearly five hours and forty-five minutes.
Currently, this state-owned power generation hub is producing 1,588.926 megawatts of electricity.
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