Ashuganj Power Station Company Limited (APSCL) launched a new 50 megawatt gas engine plant yesterday, taking the power generation capacity of the station to 774 MW.
The plant is passing a commissioning period and supplying power to the national grid on a trial basis, said Md Nurul Alam, managing director of APSCL.
The plant will run in full swing by the end of this month, he said, adding that it is an environment-friendly plant which will not release any garbage.
The APSCL took the Tk 306 crore project through an international tender last year to establish the plant with its own fund, Alam said.
TSK Group, a Spanish firm, signed a 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 firm will provide a warranty service for one and a half years. GE Gen Backer Company of Austria supplied all engines while Spain and Germany supplied the other equipment.
Engineers from Austria, Spain, Germany and Bangladesh worked for the new plant.
According to APSCL, there are 16 generating units in the newly established gas engine power plant covering 9,080 metre square of land.
Each unit generates 3.332 megawatt of electricity so that all units will generate 53.312 MW of electricity. Of them, 50 MW will regularly be supplied to the national grid while 3.312 MW will remain surplus, which will be used for internal purpose of the plant.