Dhaka, Aug. 27 -- The second unit of Payra 1320-Megawatt Thermal Power Plant - which is the country's largest coal-fired plant - has begun electricity production on an experimental basis.

Project Director Helal Shah Abdul Mawla told The Business Standard that the plant was synchronised with the national grid at 4pm on Wednesday.

Giving further details, he said, "The unit is now supplying electricity to the national grid on a test basis. For next one month, different tests will be conducted and the plant's power generation will gradually increase to 622MW.

"After the trial production, necessary preparations will be taken to go into commercial production."

The 1st unit of the plant started its test run on January 13, and began commercia...