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Dhaka Thursday,  Mar 28, 2024

Power Sector

Nine Projects Get Purchase Body Nod

Land Development For Rampal Through Dredging Mongla-Gashiakhali Channel

Finance Minister AMA Muhith expressed his happiness Wednesday over the economic breakthrough and asserted the GDP growth wouldn’t decline down seven per cent in the next year. “At last… we have .achieved seven per cent growth. It took six to seven years,” he told the media after a meeting of the cabinet committee on public purchase at Bangladesh Secretariat. Asked whether it would be possible to retain the present growth... »
Bangladesh-China Power Company Limited (BCPCL) Signed a $1.56 billion contract with a Chinese consortium at Redison hotel for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a 1,320MW coal-fired power plant to be set up near the Payra Sea Port in Patuakhali. The Chinese consortium won the contract as lone bidder. BCPCL is a 50-50 joint venture between the state-run North-West Power Generation Company of Bangladesh and China National Machinery Import &... »
A deal is going to be signed at 29th of March next, on installing a 1,320 MW Power Plant in the seashore of Payra. Bangladesh-China Power Company (Pvt) Limited (BCPCL) will be constructing this Power Plant. The Managing Director of BCPCL and North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) A M Khorshdadul Alam has confirmed Energy Bangla that, the auction was over successfully. A final agreement is only left to be... »
Honorable Prime Minister recently disclosed her government’s power sector mega plan to generate 60,000MW electricity by 2041. The plan revealed while inaugurating some development projects including power plants through video conference on February 25, 2016. In the video conference, Prime Minister detailed the expected power generation to be 24,000MW in 2021; 40,000MW in 2031 and 60,000MW in 2041. In the revised plan the government didn’t clarify the fuel base of... »
A high-profile UNESCO delegation has paid their visit to Rampal’s Friendship Thermal Power Plant. Three of the delegates visited the project site of the power plant in Wednesday. While looking over the site, the UNESCO delegation had a meeting with the officials of Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Ltd. (BIFPCL). The UNESCO officials talked with the locals also regarding the power plant issue. World Heritage Centre of UNESCO has sent this... »
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have jointly inaugurated the supply of power and internet bandwidth between the countries. Neighbouring Tripura state will supply 100 MW of power to Bangladesh district Comilla and Bangladesh will supply 100 GBPS internet bandwidth from Cox’s Bazar to India’s Agartala after the Wednesday’s inauguration. Both prime ministers inaugurated the facilities through video-conferencing. Bangladesh and Tripura have historically shared a... »
The price of 100 MW of electricity that Bangladesh formally starts importing from Tripura’s gas-fired Palatana power plant on Wednesday will relatively be higher than the existing tariff of power being imported from India, reports UNB news agency. “The gas price in India is relatively high. That’s’ why the cost of the power of Tripura plant has been higher,” said state minister for power and energy Nasrul Hamid while briefing... »
UNESCO’s reactive monitoring mission will visit Sundarbans from March 23 to March 25, 2016, to assess possible impact of the proposed 1320MW Rampal Power Project on the world heritage site. The mission set the schedule of the visit at a time when the Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company (BIFPCL) is taking preparation to sign Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract with Indian firm BHEL this month. A three-member team of UNESCO... »
The Rural Electrification Board (REB) has undertaken a project to install 50 lakh prepaid meteres, replacing the electro-magnetic meteres from all Palli  Bidyut Samities in the country. “We have taken various projects for the REB to reduce hassle of the customers and bring more rural people under the  electricity coverage,” state minister for power, energy and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid told here Sunday. He said the ongoing REB activities of... »
Sri Lanka warned Thursday (Mar 17) of a “serious security threat” to its electricity grid as engineers battled for the fifth straight day to restore supplies crippled by an explosion and fire. Deputy power minister Ajith Perera said investigators had not ruled out sabotage in Sunday’s blast and a fire at the main distribution centre just outside the capital. “There is a serious security threat. That is why the military... »