Power supply from India’s Adani plant resumes

Staff Reporter :
Finally, power transmission from India’s Adani Godda Power Plant to Bangladesh’s national grid resumed at 3:43am on Thursday.
Official sources said the transmission line from Godda power plant was severed at 2:46pm on Wednesday. This incident had worsened the already severe loadshedding situation across Bangladesh amid the extreme heatwave.
Officials of the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh told that the operation at the Godda power plant was first resumed at 11:00pm on Wednesday night through sending supplementary power from Bangladesh.
Later, conducting a series of technical checks in the system power transmission to Bangladesh’s national grid resumed.

Badruddoza Sumon, spokesman of PGCB, said the power supply from India’s plant became normal at 3:43am on Thursday.
India’s Adani Group set up the 1,600 MW capacity coal-fired power plant at Godda to exclusively supply electricity to Bangladesh. Its 800 MW unit started commercial operation in March while the second unit is now on test run – producing 50-100 MW electricity in a 24-hour period.

Meanwhile, officials of Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB) said that excessive loadshedding across the country continues with lower power supply.
BPDB officials said there is a projection that the country’s highest demand will be 15,200 MW while the highest generation will be 12,200, leaving a shortage of nearly 3000 MW.
Meanwhile, the people in rural areas have to experience much more frequent loadshedding than in urban areas.

People living in some rural areas say they experience loadshedding for over 12 hours every day making their lives vulnerable, particularly the children .