Power generation at Ghorashal Power Plant returns to normal after 1 week

Power generation at unit five of Ghorashal Thermal Power Plant in Narsingdi resumed this (October 10, 2022) evening after a week of suspension following the national grid failure.

Jahirul Islam, chief engineer of Ghorashal Power Plant, confirmed the development to our Narsingdi correspondent.

"At 7 pm, today, it started to generate electricity simultaneously from the seven units as power generation at unit five of the plant started after solving a mechanical problem," said Jahirul.

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National grid failure: Power generation at unit 5 of Ghorashal power plant temporarily halted

On October 5 at 2:05 pm, units four and five of the Ghorashal Thermal Power Plant shut down suddenly due to a power failure in the national grid.

Later, within an hour, unit four with a capacity of 350 MW was commissioned, but unit five of 210 MW could not be commissioned.

Since then, power generation at unit five remained stopped for the last week, and after its operation today, 210 MW capacity was added to the power plant again.