Power & Energy

Zarif Mahmud: The number of power plants in the country has increased fivefold in a decade and a half. Production capacity has also increased fivefold. However, in parallel with this, the cost of electricity production has increased several times. The Power Development Board (PDB) has to count huge losses every…

Farhad Chowdhury: The power generation capacity in the country has increased continuously for the last 15 years. At this time, private investment was more than the public sector. Besides, several power plants have been constructed by foreign and domestic-foreign joint investment. Small and large domestic groups and foreign companies have…

Tk 5,736 cr bill outstanding Staff Correspondent; Bangladesh has an agreement to import 2,656 megawatts of electricity from India. This electricity imported from six public-private owned power stations of the country. For this, Tk 1000 crore to Tk 1400 crores of bills have to be paid per month. However, due…

Sylhet Correspondent: The largest state-owned fertilizer factory in Sylhet, Shahjalal Fertilizer Company Limited (SFCL), has ceased production for four months now, caused by a gas shortage. The production halt costs the government approximately TK 4.5 crore daily. Neither factory authorities, nor the government, are able to provide any specific date…

Staff Correspondent: In a significant milestone for India-Bangladesh relations, a contract was signed on July 6, 2024, in Chattogram for the modernization of the city street light system in the Chattogram City Corporation area. The project is being funded through a concessional Line of Credit from the Government of India,…

Industry Desk: Driving towards Payra Port, Bangladesh’s third-largest port, a 220-meter high cooling tower can be seen standing tall within the plant area from a distance. This plant area is home to Bangladesh’s largest power station, a 1,320 MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant. Previously, Bangladesh faced a power supply gap…

In FY 2023-24 Zarif Mahmud: Capacity charges for power plants installed in the private sector including rental-quick rental and IPPs (Independent Power Producers) are increasing every year. Expenditure in this sector will increase by more than 57 percent in the upcoming financial year. Although at that time more than half…

Staff Correspondent: No work is done in government office without bribe. But you have to go to various government offices to get various services. It was once said that corruption will be reduced only by increasing the salaries of government officials. Then the salary was increased. Now, rather, the rate…

Even under new conditions Mahfuz Emran: In March 2012, the 100 MW rental power plant installed in Zulda of Chittagong came into production. Acorn Infrastructure’s contract for the center extends for another five years at the end of the first phase. After this, the profit of the company in the…

47pc of electricity remain unutilized: CPD Zarif Mahmud: Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has lost consumers demand in Chittagong despite having huge industrial units in the division. Chittagong witnessed almost 43 percent of industrial units but the electricity demand stands at only 1447 MW daily. Sources told that most of…