Bangladesh
Load Shedding Load-shedding: State Minister for Power requests to keep patience
Own Correspondent, Dhaka, Oct 11: State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said that this month will be difficult, calling upon the countrymen who are suffering from load-shedding to be patient. The state minister said this while talking to reporters at the secretariat on Monday.
The government was scheduling load shedding as the power plant was shut down due to fuel shortage. Load shedding has become rampant in the past few days. Load shedding is being done overnight.
When asked about this, the state minister said, "We cannot keep the oil power plant running for 24 hours. One thing to think about is the load on the oil power plants. Due to this load, some power plants are closed during the day and released at night. And those that I am leaving during the day, I am closing them at night. That is why the area of load shedding has become a little bigger."
He said, "We wanted, there will be no load shedding from October. But we couldn't do that. Because we could not bring gas. The gas is off again. Gas has been cut off for electricity. We are now giving to the industry. This is why the problem is occurring."
Nasrul Hamid said, "I think it may be temporary, but it is not temporary. The world situation is different again. We want everyone to be patient. This month/two may be difficult. This month will be difficult. Hopefully... from next month we are trying to do better."
Everyone wants the midnight load shedding to be stopped somehow - the state minister said that our target now is to supply gas to the industry. That's why we made a little diversion. Demand for gas has increased in export-oriented industries. Looking at this place, fertilizer has to be given to the factory. The oil power plants cannot be run for 24 hours. Can't be run for more than eight hours. But these things are all added together."
Will the situation be normal from November? In response to such a question, Nasrul Hamid said, "I hope. I was hoping things would get better in October. But now I see that the demand in the industry has increased. We have reduced gas to electricity. On the other hand, problems have arisen due to the reduction."
