Power supply has partly recovered after the national grid failure, but not all power stations are running again, so many parts of the capital are having frequent load-shedding, Bangla Tribune reports. Distribution companies say they have to cut supply in rotation to balance generation and demand.
At 12:43pm on Tuesday (27 October) a fault on the Meghnaghat-Haripur national grid line cut power to Dhaka and other areas. Supply went off in the Secretariat, Bidyut Bhaban, the High Court and the eastern part of Dhaka, and in part of Chattogram.
Power Grid Bangladesh PLC (PGCB) said restoration of the grid was completed at 2:30pm, with all grid lines and substations back on; power plants would be restarted in stages, and load-shedding would ease as generation rose. PGCB figures put load-shedding at 3,154 MW at 2pm, 3,488 MW at 3pm, the highest of the week, and 2,356 MW at 4pm.
According to National Load Dispatch Centre (NLDC) sources, generation was 14,712 MW at noon and fell to 9,349 MW after the fault, as plants with a capacity of 5,370 MW shut down. A Power Development Board official said some plants stopped partly and some completely, among them the Bibiyana and Summit plants and two PDB stations, and restarting them will take time.
Residents of Moghbazar, Malibagh, Panthapath, Shantinagar, Green Road and other areas suffered repeated outages. Nasima Akter of Shantinagar said power had been going off again and again since the afternoon, returning briefly and going again, for about an hour at a time. Nazmul Haque of Kathalbagan said power went off several times after dusk.
Photo: high-voltage transmission tower in Bangladesh, A S M Jobaer / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Source: Bangla Tribune
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