Dhaka Thursday, Jun 4, 2026
- Electricity Price Increase Withdrawn for Lowest-Consumption Customers
- Power Division Requests Review of Increased Electricity Tariffs
- Electricity Tariff Hiked: How Much More Will Consumers Pay Each Month?
- 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
Engineer Bikash Dewan has joined as the new Managing Director of Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited (DPDC). Before joining there he served the Power Development Board (PDB) as a chief engineer (Planning and Design). Eng Bikash Dewan completed his graduation as a BSC Eng. from the former Bangladesh Institute of Technology, Chittagong (BIT) which is currently known as Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET). Mr. Bikash has spent most... »
Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Limited (CPGCBL) has signed a contract for construction of 1,200MW Matarbari coal-fired power project with Sumitomo-led Japanese consortium on Thursday. Following the judgment of an arbitrator panel of Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU), CPGCBL signed the US $ 4.5 billion project at a simple ceremony at its office. “The two member judges’ panel of CPTU observed the process was right. One member opined that the... »
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid today said the overall power situation will further improve in the next one year as the government is working continuously in the transmission and gridlines in rural areas keeping in view the country’s coveted economic progress. “Within the next one year, we expect the power situation in rural areas to further improve,” he told BSS here today after addressing the... »
Long time there is no electricity. From 9am to the afternoon. When will it be unknown? So in the hope of a little relief in Hatirjheel, rest with the family. Relief from wheat in the open air. This is the case of Madhubagh in the capital. There is no water from the morning because there is no electricity.
Faisal Khan has been appointed as the Additional Managing Director of Summit Corporation effective this July. Prior to the appointment, Faisal Khan was the Director Operations of Summit Power Limited and a member of the Board of Directors of all subsidiary companies under Summit Group. He was involved in the development of ten power generation projects totaling over 1,100MW in the past decade. As part of leadership succession planning of... »
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid today said the government has been giving subsidy in the power sector as the purchasing capacity of the common people is yet to reach the expected level. “We have kept lifeline tariff in the electricity for giving relief to the common people. We should not think about profit and loss for the REB (Rural Electrification Board),” he said at the... » 
The UNESCO backed away from opposing the government’s plan to set up a coal-fired power plant near the Sundarbans because of arguments made about mitigating measures, the prime minister’s energy adviser has said Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury briefed the media at Dhaka’s Biddut Bhaban on Sunday, over decisions adopted by the World Heritage Committee last week on the world’s largest mangrove forest. Representatives from Bangladesh were able to convince the international society... » 
Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, the adviser to the Prime Minister on Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Affairs said that, the UNESCO has no objection anymore in installing coal-fired power plant at Rampal. But, before carrying out a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) study on the Sundarbans, the government can’t install the second unit of the Rampal power plant. The energy advisor to the prime minister informed the newsman about the objection withdrawal of... »
The UNESCO has given some conditions to Dhaka for implementing Rampal power plant project in the vicinity of the Sundarbans, to protect the world heritage site, a state minister claimed on Friday. Issuing a press release, the foreign ministry on Thursday said the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO had withdrawn its earlier objection to construction of the coal-based power plant near the Sundarbans, a project that triggered widespread criticism and... »
The government says the World Heritage Committee of Unesco has withdrawn its earlier objection to the construction of the coal-based Rampal power plant project at its current location. It has also refrained from adding the Sundarbans to the List of World Heritage in Danger. The decision was made at the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee being held in Krakow, Poland, says a press release issued from the Foreign... »