New 50MW plant opens at Ashuganj

 Gas engine plant of Ashuganj Power Station Company Limited (APSCL) in Brahmanbaria.

by the  Daily Star

Ashuganj Power Station Company Limited (APSCL) on Sunday lunched a new 50 megawatt gas engine plant, increasing the power generation capacity of the station to 774 MW.

It is an environment friendly plant which will not release any garbage, said Md Nurul Alam, the managing director of APSCL.

The plant is supplying power to the national grid on a trial basis and will run in full swing by the end of this month, he added, reports our Brahmanbaria correspondent.

The APSCL took the project last year to establish the plant with its own fund in a bid to mitigate the power crisis in the country, Alam said.

The company completed the Tk 306 crore project through an international tender.

TSK Group, a Spanish farm, signed the EPC (engineering procurement and construction) basis contract with APSCL on July 25 last year and started working on September 9.

The establishment of the plant was completed by 210 days accordingly. The contracted farm will provide a warranty service for one and half years. GE Janbacher Company of Austria supplied all engines while Spain and Germany supplied the other equipments for the plant.

According to APSCL, there are 16 generating units in the newly established Gas Engine Power Plant that generate 53.312 MW of electricity. Of them, 50 MW will be supplied to the national grid while the rest will be used for internal purpose of the plant.


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