SS Power Plant to start power supply at full capacity

 
SS Power Plant, established at Gondamara in Banshkhali, Chattogram, started supplying electricity to the national grid on an experimental basis in the last week of May to meet the increasing demand for electricity all over the country.

Afterwards, the power plant has consistently supplied a maximum of 300 to 500 MW of electricity to the national grid. Following the successful completion of the trial run of the power supply, the power plant shut down temporarily on June 8 as planned and the commissioning process started, so that the production of the second unit could start on time. The power plant will be officially inaugurated after Eid-ul-Azha.

However, the SS Power Plant authority will try to restart electricity production around June 20 to reduce people's suffering for electricity. It is to be noted here that a net amount of 1224 MW of electricity will be supplied to the national grid from the SS Power Plant.

As per the SS Power Plant authority's plan, a sufficient supply of coal has already been procured to generate electricity from the two units of the power plant. The first shipment of which will arrive by June 18 and another shipment will arrive at the end of this month. As part of the project loan, approximately seven lakh tonnes of coal will arrive soon.

The SS Power Plant authority has confirmed there is no shortage of coal in the power plant; moreover, the full commissioning process will begin after the development of the grid transmission capacity of the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB). The generated power will be effectively added to the national grid as per the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), executed with the Bangladesh Power Development Board, and the Implementation Agreement (IA) executed with the government of Bangladesh and PGCB.

Md Ebadat Hossain Bhuiyan FCA, Chief Financial Officer, SS Power Limited, said, "We have successfully completed the trial run of power generation of the first unit. Testing and commissioning of the second unit are underway. All necessary measures have been taken to ensure an uninterrupted supply of coal as fuel. After Eid, the power plant is scheduled to start electricity production at full capacity. However, considering the current crisis people are going through due to power shortages, we will try to supply electricity to the national grid again around June 20.

Recently, it has come to our attention that several media outlets have published misleading news about the shutdown of power generation at the SS Power Plant. We are requesting everyone to be aware of the misinformation."

S. Alam Group, one of the leading conglomerates in the country, built 'SS Power Plant,' the thermal power plant, in partnership with prominent Chinese power plant construction company 'Sepco 3,' at a cost of $2.6 billion or twenty-eight thousand crore Taka. As a result of the implementation of this largest private megaproject in Bangladesh, national energy security will be strengthened. Industries and irrigation systems will also benefit from it.