Power & Energy

Cell cos cheating customers Zarif Mahmud with Mahfuz Emran: Smart Bangladesh has recently been announced by the government. Before this there was Digital Bangladesh. But be it digital and smart, Bangladesh should be unique to be the first from the last in terms of mobile internet speed. Some time ago,…

Aaqib Md Shatil: With the Bangladesh government raising the electricity tariff for a third time in two months, and Nasrul Hamid, the country’s energy minister, making it clear to the media that the government will be “adjusting” the price on a regular basis until the global crisis recedes, it is…

Staff Correspondent: With the accomplishment of concreting of the dome part of the outer containment of the reactor building of Unit 1 at Rooppur nuclear power plant (RNPP) was completed ahead of its schedule time.“With the accomplishment of concreting of the dome part of the outer containment of the reactor…

Farid Hossain: The Adani Group of India will likely be ready to supply power from its 1600-MW coal-fired plant in Godda, Jharkhand by next week. In 2017, state-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board signed the deal with the Indian conglomerate for direct and exclusive purchase of electricity through a 400 KV…

State Minister Shahriar says in India Industry Desk: State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam has claimed that the $4.5 billion Adani Power Project is an “important” one for Bangladesh and the government has no “any issues” with the Indian conglomerate.Shahriar, while speaking with Indian media outlet ABP Live…

Special Correspondent: The power department has announced the closure of diesel-based plants due to high production costs. Consumer demand can be met by relying on coal, gas and furnace oil-based electricity.In July last year, the power generation of all diesel-based plants was stopped as a cost-effective policy. However, they had…

Staff Correspondent: The Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges has drafted a new policy on the registration and movement of electric vehicles, which includes an obligation for existing electric vehicles on the road to be converted into a specific safer model. The draft policy prioritizes buses, trucks, and private cars…

Industry Desk: Amid the controversy over an abnormal coal price quoted by Adani Power, Bangladesh is all set to receive electricity from the Indian power company’s Godda 1600MW Thermal Power Plant from the first week of March.Bangladesh will import around 750MW of electricity from the first unit of the plant…

‘Not to comply with IMF conditions now’ Ibrahim Khalil Jewel: Traders and entrepreneurs of the country want subsidies for some more time as well as they want the govt would not coordinate the IMF’s terms and conditions now, considering the inflation and the current world situation.The leaders of the Metropolitan…

Special Correspondent: Bangladesh’s private power producers will need $1 billion in foreign currency to import fuel oil and avert an energy crisis this summer, their industry association said in a letter to the central bank seen by Reuters.Analysts expect power cuts in Bangladesh to worsen this year, as a rapid…