Electricity production at the Rampal Thermal Power Plant in Bagerhat has been suspended again due to coal shortage.
Power generation was cut off from 4:30am on Sunday, Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Ltd (BIFPCL) Deputy General Manager Anwarul Azim said.
He said: “The power plant would resume operations upon the arrival of new coal imports. A shipment of 31,000 metric tons of coal was received from Indonesia on July 13. Unfortunately, the power generation came to a halt as the coal supply depleted.”
Earlier, power generation and supply were suspended from June 30 to July 9.
The plant resumed production on July 10 after maintenance work.
Dhaka TribuneBut six days after the commissioning, the plant's turbine fault stopped power generation and supply to the national grid from July 16.
In the past, Rampal coal-fired thermal power plant has been closed several times due to various problems including mechanical faults and maintenance.
The first unit of 660MW of Rampal Maitri Super Thermal Power Project went into commercial production on December 23, 2022.
