Barapukuria Power Station is located near Durgapur, Dinajpur, Bangladesh.
[1] There are three units of the plant, operated by BPDB, which can generate a combined 525 megawatts of electricity.
[4] Before the shut down of the plant it had been supplying around 380MW power to the national grid on an average.
[2] When the power plant shutdown in first time, the people of eight northern districts of Rangpur and Dinajpur regions suffered most lacking of electricity.
[2] On 14 September 2018, the coal plant started to produce electricity again.