Electricity production starts at Summit's Barisal plant

4 May 2016 | The Daily Star 

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Summit Barisal Power Ltd started commercial production of electricity in April, two months before the schedule. 

Summit started the Tk 575-crore project to produce 120MW of power in the first private power plant in Barisal in March last year, said Muhammed Aziz Khan, chairman of Summit Power Ltd. 

The plant will supply 110MW of electricity to the national grid, he said. 

The main power generation machinery of the plant was imported from Wartsila Finland, said SM Ali Ahsan, plant manager of Summit Barisal Power Ltd. 

The plant will help reduce outages, said Abdul Wadud, managing director of Summit Power Ltd. 

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Summit starts power generation at new 149MW plant

The Daily Observer | 16 July 2018
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An aerial view of 149 MW HFO-fueled Summit power plant, at Kodda, Gazipur

Summit, Bangladesh's independent power producer , has begun power generation at another 149 MW HFO-fueled power plant, at Kodda, Gazipur, says a press release. 

Summit Gazipur I Power Limited (also known as Ace Alliance Power Limited) was assigned by Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and Power Division of Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources. 

With addition of this new power plant, the total generation capacity of Summit now stands at 1,941 MW. Only about two months earlier (on 9th May 2018) Summit Gazipur II Power (300MW) started power generation on record time. 

Summit Gazipur I Power is supplying power in the national grid at 132 KV through PGCB's Kodda grid sub-stations. Summit Gazipur I (149MW) and Gazipur II (300MW) power plants are located adjacent to each other in Kodda, Gazipur about 30 km away from Dhaka city. 

Link: https://www.observerbd.com/details.php?id=148160