Power & Energy
Power & Energy
Pvt power cos owe Tk 36,751 cr to PDB
January-September 2023 Mahfuz Emran : The Power Development Board (PDB) is facing huge losses from the financial year 2021-22. However, the government is not giving sufficient subsidy to the electricity sector to meet the deficit. Due to this, the power companies owe to PDB is increasing. The government waived the…
Read More »Worry about power supply in summer
Staff Correspondent: The power and energy sector of the country is in trouble with a huge amount of debt. On the one hand, due to lack of money, they are not able to pay the price of electricity to the private centers on time; On the other hand, due to…
Read More »Power sector fails to create full capacity
Average generation 13,208 mw against 31,000 mw capacity Mahfuz Emran : According to the data of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), the total production capacity of the power sector in the country will stand at 31 thousand megawatts by the end of last year. The highest average daily generation of…
Read More »Power sector capacity charge increasing
Unregulated power sourcing Zarif Mahmud : The cost of power generation has been rising for several years. In the fiscal year 2020-21, the average expenditure was Tk 6.61. It has increased by 67 percent in 2022-23 financial year in a span of two years. In this last financial year, the…
Read More »Teletalk facing network scarcity
Customers scraping Teletalk SIMs Staff Correspondent : Under a photocard of the ‘Minute Bundle’ offer recently posted on Teletalk’s verified official Facebook page, a Teletalk SIM customer named Eamon complained, “I have SIM but can’t get network because there is no tower.” So, I can’t use Teletalk SIM.Another person named…
Read More »Lack of investment hampers oil and gas search in sea
Rabiul Haque : The oil and gas search in the off shore has been suffering due to lack of investment. The government is trying to allure foreign investments by inviting international tender shortly.Neighboring India achieved great success early this year by exploring for oil and gas in the deep sea.…
Read More »Largest urea factory going for production by this month
Narsingdi Correspondent: To increase the production of urea fertilizer in the country, the largest Ghorashal-Palash Urea Fertilizer Factory has been built at Palash in Narsingdi. And this fertilizer factory is going into commercial production on January 28 this month.One of the mega projects of the present government is this Ghorashal-Palash…
Read More »‘Govt ruined energy sector while making more profit’
Staff Correspondent : Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) Energy Advisor Professor M Shamsul Alam has expressed fear that the government may raise the price of fuel again by bringing forward the special shortage or crisis. This expert believes that the gas crisis that is going on in the capital is…
Read More »Line of cars getting longer at pumps
Gas crisis turns to a severe Staff Correspondent: In front of the National Press Club of the capital on Wednesday afternoon, a young man named Lutfar Rahman asked the driver of a CNG-powered auto-rickshaw if he would go to Karwan Bazar. Driver Rabiul said, he will not go.After waiting for…
Read More »Gas reserves to be zero in 5-yr!
If new well not found The capacity of the fields under Chevron is over. Gas extraction from these fields can be stopped at any time Mahfuz Emran: Almost 70 percent of the natural gas reserves of the country have utilized so far and the rest 30 percent will be finished…
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Hotels to be converted for Covid hospitals
Hospitals overwhelmed Staff Correspondent: The government is going to rent hotels for providing treatment …
