Load shedding has been rising throughout the nation as vitality period from gas-essentially based stations is accrued below the anticipated diploma.
According to unswerving sources, the nation had to expertise a load shedding of 1,874 MW at 3:00pm to meet the ask of 14,750 MW on Monday (9 September).
The Energy Grid Bangladesh PLC’s unswerving statistics conceal that the nation became once generating 12,788 MW at that time.
Bangladesh Energy Vogue Board (BPDB) forecast unearths that load shedding will trail up within the evening with the increased ask of 15,900 MW on the day.
Residents of many areas in Dhaka metropolis had to expertise vitality cuts for several spells amid the scorching weather.
Abdur Rashid, a resident within the metropolis’s Uttara direct, suggested that his day began with an hour-lengthy load shedding at 11:00am.
Identical allegations had been stumbled on from residents within the metropolis’s Gulshan, Mohammadpur, Malibagh and other areas.
Officials of the BPDB said they have not been in a map to generate electrical energy from their gas-fired vitality vegetation attributable to lack of sufficient provide of gas.
The on hand files of the BPDB presentations that 4,169 MW of electrical energy is now not being produced attributable to unavailable gas provide to a lawful quantity of vegetation.
Petrobangla officers said no matter repeated requests from the authorities, the Summit Community could per chance now not resume operation of its LNG terminal for which the nationwide grid is now not in a map to salvage 500 million cubic feet of gas per day (MMCFD) from imported provide.
The statistics conceal that the nation produced 2,609.4 MMCFD in opposition to a ask of about 4000 MMCFD gas.
