The Bangladesh government has taken initiatives to ensure uninterrupted power supply during Ramadan. Prime minister's energy advisor Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury said this while speaking as the chief guest of a conference entitled ‘Unified Qualitative Pre-paid Meter’ at the Dhaka Biddyut Bhaban on Saturday.  “Those power stations now out of production due to maintenance will commence supplying electricity before Ramadan”, he said.

Football fans in different parts of the Bangladesh vandalised power and government offices and held protests on Saturday as they could not watch the FIFA World Cup 2010 matches on televisions because of power outage.  Frustrated at power outage during the match between Argentina and Nigeria, hundreds of people blocked a road stretch road at Syedabad in Dhaka about 8:00pm. They were on the road till 10:00pm.
   

The Power Development Board on Sunday initialled deals with two local companies for installation of two more 100MW rental power plants without floating any tenders, taking the total number of unsolicited ‘quick plants’ to 11.  The board is likely to initial another unsolicited agreement with the Bangladesh Army for installation of a 100MW or a 2x50MW plant while there is a separate plan for striking a deal with ...

After a little bit of an improvement in recent days, the country experienced a big fall in power production as a number of power plants were forced to shut down over the last three days due to technical faults. Power generation came down to below 3,750 MW on Monday from an average production level of 4400-4500 MW just prior to it.