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Published : 19 Jan 2026, 02:34 PM
Power generation at the Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant in Dinajpur has come to a complete halt after a crack was detected in the boiler.
On Monday, Chief Engineer Abu Bakar Siddique said the plant, which has four units and a total capacity of 525MW, completely halted production.
The last unit shut down on Sunday afternoon, leaving the plant with no active electricity output.
The plant comprises two 125MW units and one 275MW unit. Unit 2 has been entirely non-operational since 2020, leaving Units 1 and 3 to generate electricity.
Unit 3, with a 275MW capacity, has been offline for over a year since October 2025 for overhauling and may take roughly two more months to resume operation. Unit 1 was shut down on Sunday.
Chief Engineer Siddique said, “The boiler section where the tube has burst reaches a temperature of 1,000 °C. Once it cools, technicians will enter to identify the cracked part and assess the situation to restart the unit as soon as possible.”
“There are thousands of tubes in the boiler, he added. “If only four or five tubes are affected, repair will take less time; if more are damaged, it will take longer.”
A similar incident occurred on Oct 19 last year, when a boiler pipe in another unit burst, halting power generation.
Although that unit was repaired and restarted, the same type of problem has caused production to stop again.
