<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The electricity situation has improved further in the district as country's largest solar power plant the Teesta Solar Limited has gone to production recently.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the plant located at Latshalar Char under Sundarganj upazila of the district as she addressed a mammoth public rally on Rangpur Zila School ground on Wednesday.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister also witnessed the plant from the helicopter on her way back to Dhaka.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The construction work of the plant started in 2017. Beximco Group and its subsidiary Beximco Power Limited constructed it. Around five lakh solar panels were installed in the plant&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The plant has been supplying power to the national grid experimentally since December 2022.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This 200-megawatt plant is expected to play a significant role in the solution of power crisis in the northern region including Gaibandha district.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To connect the plant to the national grid via Rangpur, a 35-kilometre long 132-kilovolt transmission line has been set up with 122 towers. Substations and inverters have also been set up.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and Teesta Solar Limited have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to buy electricity from this plant.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The people of the district already started getting the benefit of the plant. BSS</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>