Due to the ongoing global dollar and energy crises, power production at several power plants in Bangladesh has been interrupted. As a result, heavy load-shedding is occurring nationwide. The regular lives of the people have been greatly hampered due to the frequent power outages. However, S. Alam Group’s SS Power Plant is going to provide electricity at maximum capacity of the national grid to tackle the power crisis. Power production will be provided in the next one or two weeks, scheduled before Eid-ul-Azha.
Located at Gondamara, Banshkhali, Chattogram, the 1,320 MW SS Power Plant’s other unit is also in the process of supplying electricity to the national grid. This will play a role in reducing the power crisis and bringing relief to the public.
On May 24, one of the two units of the SS Power Plant started supplying electricity to the national grid on an experimental basis. The power plant is now supplying a maximum of 200 MW of electricity to the national grid. The SS Power Plant authority said the power plant has made almost all the preparations to produce power at full capacity very soon.
Coal has already arrived from China to be used as fuel at the power plant. Another shipment of coal is expected to arrive in Chattogram by this month.
A high official of the SS Power Plant said, “We are hoping one of the units of SS Power Plant will supply electricity at maximum capacity very soon. This will greatly reduce the unbearable suffering caused by load-shedding. Apart from this, another unit of the power plant will also start generating electricity at full capacity very soon. We already have sufficient stock of coal as fuel, and another consignment is expected to reach Chattogram by this month.”
S. Alam Group, one of the leading conglomerates in the country, built SS Power Plant, the thermal power plant, in partnership with the prominent Chinese power plant construction company Sepco 3, at a cost of 2.6 billion USD or 28 thousand crore BDT. 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.
