Its because of gas crisis,now confirmed..and everyone were just jumping for no reason.
Newly built Siddhirganj power plant shut down due to gas crisis
Reported by: UNBconnect
Reported on: February 23, 2010 18:05 PM
Reported in: National
News - Newly built Siddhirganj power plant shut down due to gas crisis
Dhaka, Feb 23 (UNB)-Crippled by gas crisis, the newly built Siddhirganj power plant has been shut down just within eight days of its inauguration by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, official sources said Tuesday.
Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh (EGCB), a subsidiary of the state-owned Power Development Board (PDB), implemented the power-plant project and commenced the 120-MW unit-1 of the 240-MW plant, under a crash course for dealing with a perennial electricity crisis. The PM inaugurated its operation on February 14.
The other same-capacity unit of the twin-plant is supposed to come into operation within next two months.
According to sources, the EGCB shut down the plant on February 23 (Monday) after completion of a test run.
An official at the EGCB told UNB that despite gas crisis, they had to commence operation of the plant because of the fact that the PM would inaugurate it to mitigate the power crunch.
"Instructed by the higher authority, we had to arrange gas supply to the new plant through diverting gas from the existing 210-MW thermal plant at the Siddhirganj station and from other sources," said an EGCB official on condition of anonymity.
He noted that the gas-supply company, Titas, had to cut gas supply to other industries in Siddhirganj and its adjoining Narayanganj and Rupganj industrial belt. "About 500 small and medium-scale industries had been denied gas supply in the areas to ensure gas supply to the new plant," the EGCB official said.
He also informed that the EGCB would now conduct some other tests on the plant keeping it at halt.
The PDB official said that presently they have to keep closed a huge number of power plants, having a total capacity of 770 megawatts, because of gas crisis that has also forced the government to go for the fuel rationing to industries.
EGCB officials said that they have decided to convert the newly installed Siddhirganj peaking power plant to a dual-fuel system to offset the gas crisis and keep it in operation.
"We have already started discussion with the plant's contractor, Indian BHEL, to convert the plant to dual-fuel one so that we can run the machine with liquid fuel," another EGCB official said.
UNBconnect... - Newly built Siddhirganj power plant shut down due to gas crisis
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So as I said,Amardesh report was a biased one with no proper mention of the actual problem.