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Adani Power has reduced electricity supplies to Bangladesh again, with deliveries from its Godda power plant in India falling to around 500–600 megawatts.
The situation worsened after the plant’s 800MW Unit-1 tripped amid a coal shortage. At 6am on Thursday (October 1), the plant was supplying 504MW of electricity to Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) said on Wednesday that Adani Power had informed it that the unit would take four days to restart.
BPDB Member (Generation) Md Zahurul Islam said the plant’s supply had declined because of a coal shortage and fallen further after Unit-1 was shut down.
He said the supply dropped to 509MW at around 1pm on Wednesday and had remained between 500MW and 600MW since then.
According to data from Power Grid Bangladesh’s National Load Dispatch Centre, Adani supplied 834.14MW during peak hours on September 29. The reduced supply was attributed to the coal shortage.
The previous day, the plant supplied a maximum of 822.58MW, against its available capacity of 1,496MW. Before the coal shortage emerged, peak-hour supplies were significantly higher, reaching 1,323.06MW on September 27 and 1,308.87MW on September 26.
The reduced supply from Adani has added further pressure on Bangladesh’s national grid, as several gas- and coal-fired power plants are also generating less electricity.
With supplies from Adani and several other major private power plants falling short of demand, load-shedding exceeded 2,000MW on both September 29 and 30.
