Barapukuria Power Plant shuts down over fire incident, technical issues

Power production at all the units of Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant in Dinajpur has been halted due to a fire incident and other technical glitches.

The fire originated from a short circuit at the power line of I&C section of the plant’s unit-1 at 5:10am on Tuesday.

Due to the short circuit, the active unit-3 with 275MW capacity suddenly stopped after an immediate “trip”, halting the overall power generation of the entire power plant, Chief Engineer of the plant Md Abu Bakkar Siddik confirmed.

“Efforts are on to go back to power generation quickly,” he said.

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Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant Unit 1 resumes power generation

Power generation at the unit-2 of the plant has been discontinued since 2020 due to technical issues.

According to plant sources, the unit-1 with 125MW capacity and the unit-3 with 275MW capacity had been operational recently.

From these units, 65MW of power from unit-1 and 170MW of power from unit-3 was being added to the national grid until the closure of the plant.