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Barapukuria Power Station is located near Durgapur,
Dinajpur Dinajpur ( ) 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. It is bounded on the north by Suihari, Katapara, Bangi ...
,
Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...
. 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 (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantification (science), quantify the rate of Work ...
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 electricity generation, generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electr ...
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 can generate a combined 525 megawatts of electricity. 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 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 ( ) 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. It is bounded on the north by Suihari, Katapara, Bangi ...
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

* Electricity sector in Bangladesh * List of power stations in Bangladesh


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Fossil fuel power stations in Bangladesh Coal-fired power stations in Bangladesh {{Bangladesh-struct-stub