Dhaka Thursday, Jun 25, 2026
- PM urges global leaders to turn climate pledges into action
- No Plan to Provide New Gas Connections to Household Sector
- All Quick Rental Power Plants Retired: Power Minister
- It Will Take Time to Break Free from the Cycle of Corruption in the Power Sector: Information Minister
- Electricity Prices Increased for All Consumers
- Approval Given to Purchase Three LNG Cargoes
- Diesel, Kerosene Prices Cut By 50p For November
- AI Boom To Fuel Natural Gas Demand In Coming Years, Report Says
- Bangladesh signs €477m deals with EU and EIB for renewable energy and more
- The Current Oil Price Rally Is Reaching Its Limits
Power Sector
Today, Summit Group and Qatar Financial Centre (“QFC”) have signed an MOU in the presence of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, CEO and MD of Summit Power International Ayesha Aziz Khan, His Excellency Sultan bin Rashid Al Khater, Undersecretary of Ministry of Commerce & Industry of Qatar and the CEO of QFC Yousef Mohamed Al-Jaida. On behalf of their organisations the MOU was signed by Sheikha Alanoud Bint... »
Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury on Sunday described the government’s power deal with the Indian Adani Group as an anti-state one and demanded its cancellation. Report UNB “Bangladesh’s power deal with India’s Adani Group has shocked the patriots and sensible people. This deal is against the interests of Bangladesh and it should be revoked,” he said. Zafrullah, also a freedom fighter, made the demand at a press conference arranged... »
Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud today said despite the recent hike in the price of electricity in the country, the tariff of power still remains less than in many countries. “The increase in electricity price has exceeded cent per cent in the United Kingdom. It (price) has exceeded 20 to 100 per cent in European Union countries . . . It is... » 
The government’s top policy makers on power have been briefed about the outcome of meeting the state-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board has recently held with a visiting team of Adani Group to discuss the coal pricing issue under its power purchase deal with the Indian conglomerate. According to official sources on Tuesday, the officials of the BPDB briefed Prime Minister’s Energy Advisor Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury and other top policymakers about the... » 
The government has raised retail power prices by 5 percent, the third hike in less than two months. The new rates will be effective from March billing, according to a notice published by the Power Division on Tuesday. On a weighted average, the prices have increased to Tk 8.24 per unit from Tk 7.25 set for February on Jan 31. Before that, retail power prices were raised by 5 percent... »
The cost of power generation at the 1,320MW Rampal Power Plant is now estimated to be Tk 14-15 per unit, instead of Tk 7-8 per unit estimated when the project was taken up. “The recent hike in coal prices in the global market has pushed up the generation cost. If the coal prices decline, the generation cost will come down rationally,” said Subhash Chandra Pandey, the project director of the... »
South Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh Lee Jang-keun has visited the project site in Matarbari Coal-powered Plant to observe the work being done by 75 Korean engineers and to encourage them. Report UNB He was briefed on the progress by project managers, listened to the challenges faced by the South Korean firm POSCO E&C, and discussed solutions to overcome them. During the visit on Monday, Ambassador Lee said that South Korean... »
The Rampal thermal power plant resumed production on Wednesday night after a month of closure due to a coal shortage. At 11:03 pm on Wednesday a unit of the power plant was restarted, according to Anwarul Azim, deputy general manager of the Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Limited. The plant generated 100 MW of power at night, 200 MW in the morning and will move up to 400 MW in accordance... » 
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid today said that the electricity under the agreement with India’s Adani’s power will come into Bangladesh in the first week of March. “There is no concern about Adani’s electricity import and discussion on Adani’s power is baseless,” he told the journalist at his ministry. Nasrul Hamid said Bangladesh will get the electricity from the India Company at competitive market price,... » 
India has said it is not involved in any agreement between the Bangladesh government and Adani Power for procurement of electricity from the Indian conglomerate’s plant in Jharkhand. “I don’t have anything on that. I understand you are referring to a deal between a sovereign government and an Indian company. I am not aware of it. I don’t even think we are involved in this,” said Indian Ministry of External... »