Tue 04 October 2022:
National power transmission grid failed at 2:05 pm — causing blackout across Bangladesh, except some parts of the north.
According to officials at Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB), the transmission line tripped somewhere in the eastern part of the country, especially districts on the east of Jamuna river.
“Electricity supply to the country’s central and southeastern region came to a halt at around 2pm Tuesday (4 October),” said Dhaka Electric Supply Company Ltd (Desco) Managing Director (MD) Md Kausar Ameer Ali confirming the news to The Business Standard.
“We are coordinating with the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB), the operational body of the national grid, to get things fixed,” he added.
Only a few districts in the Rangpur division were out of the power failure, said a top official of PGCB.
Following the grid failure, all power plants tripped one after another and electricity supply went off in Dhaka, Chattogram, Sylhet, Barishal and Mymensingh divisions.
BPDB director (Public Relation) Shameem Hasan informed that engineers of both BPDB and PGCB were trying their best to restore electricity transmission.
Until 2:45 pm, power supply were restored at a good number of areas in those division.
When contacted, Bangladesh Power Development Board’s (BPDB) Southern Region Chief Engineer Rezaul Karim told The Business Standard that Dhaka, Mymensingh, Sylhet and Cumilla have been entirely blacked out due to a failure in the national grid’s eastern part.
Unsure of the cause behind the power failure, Rezaul Karim said that all units of BPDB southern region are busy trying to restore connectivity.
Sharing the same experience with TBS, Chief Engineer of Power Development Board’s Sylhet region Abdul Qadir said power production in all power plants has stopped due to the failure.
He said, “It cannot be determined yet when the situation will be normal. But it will take some time.”
According to the Facebook page of Sales and Distribution Division-4 of BPDB, the black-out occurred due to under frequency at 2:02pm.
The normalisation of this power situation will take considerable time and national grid and power plant workers are working to normalise the connection, read the Facebook post.
The last incident of national power grid failure in Bangladesh happened in 32 districts on May 2, 2017.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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