Dhaka, May 15 -- The commercial commissioning of the first unit of the country's largest coal-fired Payra Power Plant project in Patuakhali has officially started at 5.30pm Thursday.

Due to pandemic situation, the station started operation without any publicity. With this, country's power generation capacity reached to 19,630 megawatts (excluding captive power).

AM Khurshedul Alam, acting managing director of the Bangladesh-China Power Company Limited (BCPCL), the project implementing company, confirmed it.

The unit with 660 megawatts capacity came into the operation, when country is power saturated.

Moreover, increased power generation capacity has now become a burden for the power sector as electricity demand reportedly dropped by 3...