Barapukuria Power Station is located near Durgapur,
Dinajpur
Dinajpur ( bn, দিনাজপুর ) is a city and the District headquarters of Dinajpur district situated in Rangpur Division, Bangladesh. It was founded in 1786. It is located 413 km north-west of Dhaka in Bangladesh. It is bounde ...
,
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
. It consists of two 125
megawatt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of Power (physics), power or radiant flux in the International System of Units, International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantification (science), ...
units and one 275 MW unit. This coal-fired
power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid.
Many p ...
was commissioned in 2006, and is operated by the
Bangladesh Power Development Board
The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) is a government agency operating under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. It was created as a public-sector organization to boos ...
(BPDB).
There are three units of the plant, operated by BPDB, which are jointly able to generate 525MW power. Two units are capable of generating 250MW power together
and third unit can generate 275MW power which is synchronised with national from late December 2017.
The power plan was shut down after the discovery of
Barapukuria coal scam
Barapukuria coal scam is a sensational corruption scandal of Bangladesh concerning the misappropriation of around 142 hundred thousand tons of coal, worth over BDT 227 billion by officials of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL) from t ...
on 22 July 2018, due to acute shortage of coal.
Before the shut down of the plant it had been supplying around 380MW power to the national grid on an average.
When the power plant shutdown in first time, the people of eight northern districts of
Rangpur and
Dinajpur
Dinajpur ( bn, দিনাজপুর ) is a city and the District headquarters of Dinajpur district situated in Rangpur Division, Bangladesh. It was founded in 1786. It is located 413 km north-west of Dhaka in Bangladesh. It is bounde ...
regions suffered most lacking of electricity. After the consideration of their suffering, BPDB decided to restart one of its units for five days from August 20 to lessen public suffering. On 28 August in 2018; the plant shut down again.
On 14 September 2018, the coal plant started to produce electricity again.
See also
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Electricity sector in Bangladesh
The utility electricity sector in Bangladesh has one national grid with an installed capacity of 25,700 MW as of June 2022. Bangladesh's energy sector is not up to the mark. However, per capita energy consumption in Bangladesh is considered hi ...
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List of power stations in Bangladesh
This is a list of power stations in Bangladesh.
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State-owned Power Development Board (PDB) will implement this 5MW ipp project.
Nuclear
2.4 GWe Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant is under construction. The two units of ...
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Fossil fuel power stations in Bangladesh
Coal-fired power stations in Bangladesh
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