After successfully generating power from its first unit, the privately-owned SS Power Plant started commercial production from its second unit at 6:18am on Sunday (October 22), said authorities.
The commercial production of the first unit started at 12:01 pm on September 18.
Both the units of SS Power Plant, the country’s largest privately-owned power plant, are now commercially producing electricity to supply sufficient power as per the demand of the national grid.
A high-level delegation of PDB visited the plant on October 19 before starting commercial production.
The delegation included PDB Dhaka Chief Engineer ABM Ziaul Haque, Coal Power Generation Director Rukon Uddin, Deputy Director of the same organization Nazmul Haque, PDB Deputy Secretary (Company Affairs) Nazmul Huda, PDB Dhaka Subdivisional Engineer (Energy Auditing) Tamim Khan, Directorate of Coal Power Generation (DCPG) Assistant Engineer Sanjida Parveen, Director (Design and Inspection-2) of PDB Dhaka Shahidul Islam, Superintendent Engineer of Energy Auditing Unit of PDB Dhaka Sohail Hossain Serazi and others.
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of SS Power Plant Ibadat Hossain Bhuiyan said, “This is very happy news for us. With the cooperation of PDB and all concerned we have been able to start commercial production of the second unit of SS Power Plant. ” Incidentally, this coal-based thermal power plant of 1,320 megawatt capacity of Banskhali was officially connected to the national grid on January 14 this year. The power plant has two units of 660 MW capacity. The first unit started trial production on May 24 and the second unit went into trial production on June 28.
The power plant is jointly owned by Chittagong-based industrial group S Alam Group and Chinese companies Sepco 3 and HTG.
