Bangladesh News

Four of the eight units of Ashuganj Power Station remain stopped since Friday due to mechanical faults in these units and a 230 KV supply line there.

Now the old power station is supplying only 140MW to 164MW of electricity whereas its eight units are supposed to supply 678MW.

The defective and faulty units include three 150MW and one 64MW ones.

All the units in the power station that have run more then 70,000 working hours are in dilapidated conditions and their massive overhauling is overdue.

But only two units have undergone overhauling.

The rest frequently become inoperative, reducing much of the Ashuganj Power Station’s production capacity.

During the last seven months the power station faced setback more than 10 times. One unit remains stopped for several months. With three more units stopped on last Friday, now four units out of eight are inoperative.

Local engineers and technicians are working hard to start the stopped units.

Ashuganj Power Station Managing Director Md Shahidur Rahman Khan said functioning of two units will resume today, one within two days and the other will start after completion of its overhauling by October.

Due to unavailability of spare parts of some units in the open market, repair takes time, he said.