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No respite from power outage

UNB, Dhaka
No improvement in power supply is visible, as additional gas supply for power generation remains negligible.
"We received barely 15 million cubic feet additional gas on Tuesday and Wednesday," said Power Development Board (PDB) MemberAlamgir Kabir.
'We could generate hardly 70-80MW with this additional gas supply,* he added.
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PDB yesterday proposed for suspension of gas based fertilizer production in Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Factory (CUFL), which will relieve significant amount of gas for generation and supply of power in Chittagong region.
But the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation vehemently opposed the proposal.
The official announcement of giving more gas for generation of power by suspension of (wo gas-based fertilizer factories described as a mere 'bluff. Ghorashal and Palash fertilizer factories were said to be suspending production. But these two factories are already closed for long for overhauling and rehabilitation, officials said.
PDB yesterday generated about 3,600 MW electricity against the official demand of 4,625 MW and unofficial demand of more than 5,000 MW.
Demand is rising every day with the advent of summer. Load shedding continued as usual across the country with huge power shortage.
According to official sources, the government on Tuesday suspended gas supply to the two fertilizer factories in Norsingdi district.
“These two factories--Ghorasal and Palash--
remained closed for long.
So, gas supply suspension does not arise,” said a senior official of the industries ministry.
Ghorasal factory, which consumes bulk supply of gas has production capacity of 3.7 million metric tons urea fertiliser per annum. It remained closed since August 2007 for overhauling and rehabilitation.
Recent attempt to resume production in Ghorasal factory on test-run basis failed due to technical reason. Plalash fertilizer -factory remained closed for the last few months.
These two factories consume only 15 million cubic feet gas per day (MMCFD). As they were closed, they did not consume any gas.
“If PDB wants to operate all its closed power plants, then it has to be supplied with additional 170-200 MMCFD gas,” said a top PDB official.
He said that PDB offered the government to close the CUFL which consumes 52 MMCFD per day.
“If the CUFL is closed, then we can get another 52 MMCFD which would lead to a major improvement in the generation side. Because, then we can generate additional 300 MW power in Rawjan and other plants in Chittagong region,” the PDB official claimed.