“The areas that are still experiencing outages will get back power soon,” he told bdnews24.com by phone. Power transmission in Barisal, Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur has been cut off as production came to a halt at the 27 plants in the regions. We hope power transmission will resume by the evening,” PGCB spokesman ABM Bodroddoza Khan had said earlier. “The Ghorasal-Ishwardi line tripped around 11:30am during repair work.”According to the Power Development Board, there are 27 plants with the capacity of producing 2,249 megawatts of power in Barisal, Khulna Rajshahi and Rangpur. Another 500MW of power comes from India via a trans-border grid, which enters Bangladesh through Kushtia.

Source: bd News24 May 02, 2017 11:15 UTC