Staff Reporter :Power generation unit-2 of Ashuganj had been shut down on Saturday around 12 noon due to technical fault. Earlier another combine cycle unit of 225 MW capacity was shut. As a result, around 289 MW of electricity could not be generated on the day.A technical team has already detected the fault and they have started to mend it, but it is not clear when it would be restarted, said Md. Sajjadur Rahman, Acting Managing Director of the power plant.The government initiated to check the state owned power plants set up between1962 to 2005. But the work goes slow. The country’s old power plants, which were installed during the period between 1962 and 2005 are 230-megawatt (MW) Karnaphuli hydropower plant, Raozan 420MW, Sikalbaha 60MW, Ashuganj 724MW, Ghorashal 950MW, Haripur 96MW, Siddhirganj 210MW, Tongi 105MW, Shahjibazar 70MW, Fenchuganj 91MW, Sylhet 20MW, Khulna 170MW, Bheramara 170MW, Barisal 45MW, Baghabari 171MW, Barapukuria 250MW, Saidpur 20MW, and Rangpur20MW plants.”The auditing is necessary to ensure county’s fuel security by way of efficient utilisation of gas by improving efficiency of the old power plants,” said a senior Power Cell official. He said engineers will carry out visual inspection of all units of these power plants, review their logbooks and other available records to establish main reasons for the poor performance of the plants and the present generation capacity.
