Energy in Bangladesh

  • Finance Minister On Power Sector In Budget Speech,Abul Maal Abdul Muhith

    BANGLADESH, 2017/06/15 Finance Minister AMA Muhit in his budget speech said that, the country’s electricity generation capacity has raised while load-shedding was lessened. Already 80 percent of the countrymen has access to electricity, rest 20 percent will get access to electricity within the year of 2021. Country’s dependency on quick rental power plants will also start to decrease after 2018, he added.

  • Roopur NPP Gets Highest Allocation, Lowest Rampal

    BANGLADESH, 2017/06/15 The Nuclear Power Plant Project of Rooppur has got the highest budget allocation of 100 thousand and 136 crore taka as a development project of the government in the proposed budget for the fiscal year of 2017-18. According to the proposed budget, 10 mega top-priority projects of the government has got a total allocation of 32 thousand and 531 crore taka which is 21.21 % of the total Annual Development Programme (ADP).

  • Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission Bill, 2017 Places In JS

    BANGLADESH, 2017/06/15 Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission Bill, 2017 was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad today to facilitating peaceful use of nuclear power.

  • President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

    BANGLADESH, 2015/10/29 With strong relations dating back to the war of liberation in 1971, Bangladesh and Russia are seeing a closer and additional comprehensive partnership spanning over law and justice, counter terrorism, education, culture, healthcare and medical sciences, agriculture inclunding nuclear energy Bangladesh has historically very strong ties with Russia. In 1971 the former Soviet Union stood by the country in its journey towards independence, later supporting Bangladesh’s reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts and development of its war-damaged economy. Relations are set to expand rapidly with the proposed establishment of an intergovernmental commission for cooperation in the areas of trade, economic and scientific and technical issues.

  • Bangladesh hikes electricity prices by 15 pct

    BANGLADESH, 2013/01/01 Bangladesh's energy regulator BERC has approved increases in electricity prices for retail consumers by an average of 15 % effective from this month to cut the losses of the national-run power generating firm, it said on Thursday. It as well increased bulk power price by 16.92 %. The new power tariff is effective from September 1, BERC chairman Syed Yusuf Hossain, announced at a news conference.

  • large power projects

    BANGLADESH, 2012/12/20 Speakers at a discussion on Sunday stressed the need for speeding up the implementation of various large power projects to phase-out the quick-rental plants for keeping the electricity tariff at affordable level. They said long-term power projects must be given priority and at the same time, the government should take steps to overhaul existing power plants timely and check system losses to improve the in general power supply situation. The Forum for Energy Reporters Bangladesh (FERB) organised the seminar with its Chairman and Editor of the fortnightly Energy and Power Mollah Amzad Hossain in the chair. FERB Director Rafiqul Bashar presented the keynote paper.
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