UNB, Dhaka :
The country’s power generation capacity has increased by 1,229 MW in the last one year from December 15, 2014 to December 15, 2015.
With the addition of 1129 MW power to the national grid, the total installed power generation capacity has reached 11,877 MW from previous year’s 1,0648 MW, while the actual or present capacity has gone up to 11,282 MW from 10,053 MW, according to
official documents of the Power Development Board (PDB) and Power Grid Company of Bangladesh.
As per the documents, the daily generation is now about 118.57 million kilowatt hours(unit) against 102.75 million kilowatt hours (unit) a day in the previous year.
However, the country has been generating power between 6,700 and 6,750 MW during the evening peak time these days against the same demand due to winter. As a result, there is no official load-shedding or power shortage across the country right now.
Despite this improved generation, officials said, there might be reports of power disruption or power cut on the supply side due to the limitations in the transmission and distribution capacity. State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid also admitted the limitations in the transmission and distribution network and said the government is now paying attention to the supply side after ‘marked improvement’ on the generation side.
“We’ve already taken initiatives for improving the transmission and distribution capacity so that we can provide electricity without any hazard or disruption,” he told UNB recently.
He said, upgrading the transmission side requires huge fund and land and the government is trying to overcome the limitations through extra efforts. The official statistics show that the shortage in gas supply still has been the biggest bottleneck in power generation for which the government has to keep shut many of its generation units for which about 872 MW power is not being possible to generate. Last year, this amount of non-production was 837 MW.
At present, the government has put a good number of generation units on maintenance, the total capacity of which is 2,264 MW against 1,865 MW last year. Power Division officials said these generation units have been put on maintenance programmes to keep them in full operation in the coming summer.
The statistics show that the electricity demand in Dhaka area rose to 2400 MW on December 15 this year from 2076 MW during the same period last year while demand in Chittangong increased to 705 MW from 610 MW.
The country’s power generation capacity has increased by 1,229 MW in the last one year from December 15, 2014 to December 15, 2015.
With the addition of 1129 MW power to the national grid, the total installed power generation capacity has reached 11,877 MW from previous year’s 1,0648 MW, while the actual or present capacity has gone up to 11,282 MW from 10,053 MW, according to
official documents of the Power Development Board (PDB) and Power Grid Company of Bangladesh.
As per the documents, the daily generation is now about 118.57 million kilowatt hours(unit) against 102.75 million kilowatt hours (unit) a day in the previous year.
However, the country has been generating power between 6,700 and 6,750 MW during the evening peak time these days against the same demand due to winter. As a result, there is no official load-shedding or power shortage across the country right now.
Despite this improved generation, officials said, there might be reports of power disruption or power cut on the supply side due to the limitations in the transmission and distribution capacity. State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid also admitted the limitations in the transmission and distribution network and said the government is now paying attention to the supply side after ‘marked improvement’ on the generation side.
“We’ve already taken initiatives for improving the transmission and distribution capacity so that we can provide electricity without any hazard or disruption,” he told UNB recently.
He said, upgrading the transmission side requires huge fund and land and the government is trying to overcome the limitations through extra efforts. The official statistics show that the shortage in gas supply still has been the biggest bottleneck in power generation for which the government has to keep shut many of its generation units for which about 872 MW power is not being possible to generate. Last year, this amount of non-production was 837 MW.
At present, the government has put a good number of generation units on maintenance, the total capacity of which is 2,264 MW against 1,865 MW last year. Power Division officials said these generation units have been put on maintenance programmes to keep them in full operation in the coming summer.
The statistics show that the electricity demand in Dhaka area rose to 2400 MW on December 15 this year from 2076 MW during the same period last year while demand in Chittangong increased to 705 MW from 610 MW.
