Meghnaghat Power Station resumes commercial operation
Meghnaghat Power Station, owned by Malaysia-based Pendekar Energy Ltd, resumed commercial operation recently. The plant was closed in April last year due to damages to its steam turbine.
The 450MW power station in Narayanganj has started supplying 273.6MW of power to the national grid with the beginning of the operation of the simple cycle mode.
“We are very happy to have been able to bring up to 60.8 percent of the plant's original capacity in less than 10 months after the incident,” said Nazri Bin Shahruddin, director of Meghnaghat Power Ltd, in a statement.
Based on initial estimates, the company expected the restoration work to take up to 20 months. The company installed two bypass stacks to enable the plant to operate on a simple cycle mode while the restoration work on the steam turbine continues.
The first unit of the gas turbine became operational on February 27 this year and the second unit two weeks later. The plant is expected to resume full operations by the first quarter of 2016, according to the statement.
Meghnaghat Power is a subsidiary of Pendekar Energy, which owns the Meghnaghat, Haripur Power Plant and NEPC Barge Mounted Power Plant with a total generating capacity of 920MW.
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