Ramkrishnapur under Bheramara upazila in Kushtia has been primarily selected for setting up of 250KV power sub-station aiming electricity import from India. A four-member team visited the location. Ishtiaq Hasan, project manager of Bangladesh Power Grid Company, led the team. Sources said the team finalised its report recommending the location as the most suitable site for the sub-station considering the geographical and other facilities. The survey report was sent to the authorities.

Bangladesh has sought 7 billion US dollars investment in energy and power sector at the road-shows held recently in New York and Singapore where a large number of promising investors evinced keen interest, reports UNB. The road-shows organized by the government where an official delegation led by Dr. Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, adviser to Prime Minister, was present

Under a mega plan to bring the country to a zero load shedding level from nagging crisis, the Bangladesh government is likely to invite tenders within the current month to set up more than nine power plants having total capacity of about 4,000 MW. According to official sources, all these power plants will be set up in private sector or under the public private partnership (PPP) as independent power producer (IPP) plants

The government of Bangladesh is planning to introduce staggered holidays for malls and shops in Dhaka to lower electricity consumption, especially summer when people consume more power, and to ease traffic congestion. The labour and employment ministry has piloted a proposal in which it proposed that the metropolis should be divided into seven zones where holidays will be on alternate days to save at least 100MW of electricity, said the ministry officials.
   

The government of Bangladesh will invite pre-qualification applications from power companies within a day or two for installing a dual-fuel (gas-liquid oil) 330-450MW independent power plant at Meghnaghat, said officials. ‘We have finalised the pre-qualification documents for installation of the dual-fuel power plant at Meghnaghat. The Power Development Board will invite the power companies within a day or two to participate in the bidding for pre-qualification,’ power secretary Abul Kalam Azad told on Wednesday

Power Development Board (PDB) was forced to close down three units of two gas-fired power plants having capacity of 480 MW of electricity in Chittagong due to gas crisis. Two units of Raozan Power Plant and another of Shikalbaha Power Plant require gas 105 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) to produce 480MW of electricity. The Unit-1 of Raozan Power Plant has been forced to stop electricity production in October last, a senior official of the plant said.