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Dhaka Thursday,  Mar 28, 2024

Power division is planning to import solar power from India

EB Report

A report was presented regarding this in a recent meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resource.

The report says that in Bangladesh electricity demand goes at its peak for two times a day- one at daytime and another at evening. The peak demand is mostly met by fuel oil-fired power plants. We’ve got a scarcity of barren lands to install solar power plants and the cost is also comparatively higher for such projects as well. However, in neighbouring India, the cost of solar power generation is relatively lower and we may import solar power from them and meet our daytime peak’s demand, says the report. We may also export power to the neighbouring nations in winter when there will not be much demand for power.

Energy experts said that the power generation capacity of the country has doubled in the last 10 years. Yet, the contribution of renewable sources in the energy mix is too low. Bangladesh has managed to contribute only 330 MW from the renewable sources in the last 10 years and out of it, 286 MW is coming from the solar home systems installed in the rural households.

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