The second unit of S Alam’s coal-fired power plant at Banshkhali in Chattogram has started commercial operation.
According to the SS Power Plant of the S Alam Group, the second unit commenced its operation on October 22. The commercial production of the first unit started on September 18.
Both the units of SS Power Plant, the country’s one of the largest privately-owned power plants, are now commercially producing electricity to supply power to the national grid.
A high-level delegation of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) visited the plant on October 19 before beginning commercial production.
The delegation included BPDB Dhaka Chief Engineer ABM Ziaul Haque, Coal Power Generation Director Rukon Uddin, Deputy Director of the same organization Nazmul Haque, and BPDB Deputy Secretary (Company Affairs) Nazmul Huda.
Now both the units of this power plant are able to feed into the national grid as expected. The PDB delegation has already seen the operation of the plant on site. They will give us a Commercial Operation Date (COD) certificate, he added.
