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- Electricity Price Increase Withdrawn for Lowest-Consumption Customers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
Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB or PDB) has launched such a smart meter service which would avail its customers to communicate with their distributors from home in real time. The state Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has introduced the smart meter in an inauguration program held at the Bidyut Bhaban at the city with the presence of the state minister for information and communication technology department... » 
The country faces acute power outages as a 3,000 megawatt power shortage grips the country. The situation turned worse after the country was hit by scorching weather since beginning of this month. From different districts said the villagers and people in towns, including big ones like Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Khulna and Rajshahi, are facing on an average 10-hour power outage a day. Low-voltage was also a problem. This power outage... » 
A Bangladesh delegation has briefed the UNESCO World Heritage Committee about the Rampal power plant and argued in support of taking the project forward. The briefing was held at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris on Monday. The government delegation was led by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Energy, Power and Mineral Resources Affairs Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury. The energy adviser told the World Heritage Committee that advanced technology would be used... » 
Power cuts have added to the unbearable hot weather scorching the people in Bangladesh. With no sign of relief from the oppressive weather this week, power officials say at least 10 plants are not feeding electricity due to reasons such as maintenance work. It will take three to four more days for the situation to improve, they say. A heatwave has been sweeping over the country for several days. The... » 
A high-level delegation led by the Prime Minister’s Energy Power and Mineral Resources advisor Dr. Tawfiq E Elahi Chowdhury has set off to Paris to clarify the authenticity of setting up the Rampal coal-fired power plant to UNESCO. The UNESCO has listed Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest of the world in the world heritage site, but the organization is recently planning to delist the forest from its world heritage site... »
The state minister for Power Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid says, supplying uninterrupted power won’t be possible right now as there is inadequate supply and transmission line and some of the larger capacity power plants couldn’t come yet into production for some reasons. The state minister stated in such a way on Monday while he was talking to the newspersons at the secretariat. The whole country has been suffering... »
A 1.6-kilometer underground power transmission line of the capital’s Uttara area are likely to be replaced by a higher capacity one. The replacement will in fact beef up the existing load capacity of the transmission line and the overall quality of power supply in that area. Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd. (PGCB) will replace the underground line which is currently maintained by Dhaka Electric Supply Company (DESCO) and this... »
Summit Meghnaghat Power Co Ltd got International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification. Found this certificate to improve the environment, management, staff health and safety of the organization.Recently Md Reaz Uddin, COO & Director of Summit Meghnaghat Power Co Ltd received the ISO and OHSMS certifications on Environment Management System (EMS), Quality Management System (QMS) and Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OHSM) from David Embery, Executive Director of TUV Austria.
The power division has expressed their grief as they couldn’t supply enough electricity in the country’s northern part as per to the prevailing demand. Residents of the country’s northern part have been facing frequent power outage or load shading for the past couple of days which have been damaging the vicinity’s agriculture and trade. The power division has expressed their regret for this frequent load shading in the northern part... »
The recent grid failure that forced a mass power outage at 38 districts occurred due to the negligence and mismanagement of the operators of the grid system. Though it was initially thought that a tornado was responsible for the grid disaster which had actually broken a transmission tower of the Ashuganj-Sirajganj transmission line only on Monday, the sufferer experienced the power outage on the following day. It clearly suggests that,... »