Dhaka, June 7, 2023 (PR) - S. Alam Group’s SS Power Plant is going to provide the national grid’s maximum capacity level of electricity to tackle the power crisis. Power production will be provided in the next one or two weeks, scheduled before Eid-ul-Azha. It is expected to the current critical situation. Due to the ongoing global dollar and energy crises, power production at several power plants in Bangladesh has been interrupted. As a result, loadshedding is occurring nationwide. The regular lives of the people have been greatly hampered due to the frequent power outages.
1,320MW SS Power Coal Plant’s Located at Gondamara, Banshkhali, Chattogram, other unit is also in the process of supplying electricity to the national grid very soon. 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 200MW of electricity to the national grid. The SS Power Plant authority said the power plant has made almost all the preparations to generate power at full capacity very soon.
Coal has already arrived from China to the power plant. Another shipment of coal is expected to arrive in Chattogram by this month.
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A high official of the SS Power Plant said, "We are hoping SS Power Plant will supply electricity at maximum capacity with one unit very soon. This will greatly reduce the unbearable suffering caused by loadshedding. 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 prominent Chinese power plant construction company ‘Sepco 3,’ at a cost of US$2.6 billion (28 thousand crore Taka).
