Energy Bangla

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $350 million in loan and $7.5 million in grant for a project to develop two power lines in support of Bangladesh’s national target of electricity for all by 2021. The government and the ADB signed agreements in this regard on Monday at a ceremony in Dhaka. Economic Relations Division (ERD) Secretary Kazi Shofiqul Azam and ADB Country Director Manmohan Parkash signed the agreements... »

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangladesh plans to import 9,000 MW power by 2041 from neighbouring countries, expecting New Delhi to stay beside this endeavour in a video conference with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. “We plan to import 9,000 MW of electricity from our neighbours by 2041 under a regional cooperation framework and I hope that India will be by our side in this endeavour,” she said jointly... »

India has started supplying an additional 500MW of electricity to Bangladesh as part of the neighbours’ cooperation in the energy sector. The power transfer from the West Bengal’s Baharampur grid to Kushtia’s Bheramara was inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi via videoconference on Monday. The two prime ministers officially inaugurated the newly-built 500MW High-Voltage DC Back-to-Back Station 2nd Block on... »

State-run power major NTPC’s trading arm NVVN will begin power supply of 300 MW to Bangladesh from midnight Sunday. “The 300 MW power supply to Bangladesh by the NVVN will commence from 00:00 hrs of 10th September 2018,” NTPC said in a statement. NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited (NVVN) is a wholly owned subsidiary of NTPC According to the statement, NVVN signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Bangladesh Power... »

North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) and German based Siemens AG today signed a joint development agreement (JDA) for building 3600 MW LNG-based power plant at Payra in Patuakhali district. Secretary of NWPGCL Dipak Kumar Dhali and President, Gas and Power, Siemens Richard Clayton Reising signed the agreement on behalf of the respective institutions at hotel Westin in the city. “The project will add 1200 megawatt electricity to the national... »

Dhaka city was lit up by spectecular fireworks as the country celebrates 20 thousand MW power generation capacity. The fireworks took place in three different places of the city on Friday evening. State minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Nasrul Hamid inaugurated the show. The fireworks were arranged at Hatirjheel, Sadarghat and Bashundhara Convention Center of the capital. Patriotic songs were played during the show, and various acheivement of... »

At the inauguration of “Power & Energy Week 2018”, Summit was awarded the prestigious Best Private Power Generation Company in recognition of fastest implemented power plant in the country. Summit had completed construction-to-power generation of 300 MW power plant in Kodda, Gazipur in only nine months. With this award, Summit became the award winner of the highest national recognition for the power generation five times in a row. The four... »

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the country’s drawback in power sector during BNP regime was unprecedented, which was not seen any part of the world. Bangladesh’s total electricity generation capacity was 1600-megawatt (MW) when Awami League assumed power in 1996. Most part of the country was plunging into darkness at that time and the government for the first time engaged the private sector to boost the sector. “With the... »

Bangladesh today proposed introduction of solar power grid in the BIMSTEC countries and ‘BIMSTEC Cruise’ on their sea routes. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the two proposals at the BIMSTEC Leaders’ Retreat Session here this morning,” Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque said while briefing reporters after the session at the Poolside of Hotel Soaltee Crowne Plaza here. The foreign secretary said the prime minister also made a proposal for strengthening... »

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi are going to inaugurate the second Indo-Bangla power gridline on September 10. “The premiers of Bangladesh and India will inaugurate the second Indo-Bangla gridline through videoconferencing on September 10,” state minister for power and energy Nasrul Hamid told on Sunday. The second gridline will facilitate import of 500MW more electricity from India, he said. A total of 640MW electricity is... »