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- Electricity Price Increase Withdrawn for Lowest-Consumption Customers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
The draft of the loan agreement on installing the Rampal Power plant got approved at the board meeting of Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Limited (BIFPCL) on this Wednesday. However, the final loan agreement which was meant to be inked yesterday with the Indian Exim Bank is yet to be signed. Earlier, the draft got approved by the ministry of finance and the power division. The draft just got passed from... »
The loan agreement on installing the most awaited power plant of Rampal is going to be signed today. The deal is likely to be signed this evening. The coal-based power plant of Rampal has a budget of $2 billion, among which $1.6 billion will be financed by the Indian Exim Bank. The Indian Exim bank will ink a deal on this $1.6 billion loan with the plant materializing authority Bangladesh-India... »
Awaiting Approvals At Purchase Committee
10 New Oil-Fired Power Plants
Ten new oil-fired power plants having an accumulated capacity of 1,000 MW are about to be installed in different parts of the country, among which most are awaiting approvals from the cabinet committee on the public purchase. Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB or PDB) has selected the responsible companies to install those power plants each having an average capacity of 100 MW. According to the related sources, proposals of 7... »
Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Ltd (CPGCBL) received two bid prices ranging from US$ 4.5 billion to $ 4 billion for implementing 1,200 MW Matarbari Coal-Fired Power Project at Moheskhali under Cox’s Bazar district. “Evaluation of those tenders is not over yet. So we can’t say the exact quoted prices. But in the primary evaluation, it seems Marubeni may have submitted the lowest price. After final evaluation we will contact... »
NEW DELHI: The coal-based power generation increased by six per cent to 674.4 billion units (BU) during the April-December period of the ongoing fiscal, Indian Parliament was informed today. “During the period of April to December 2016, the coal-based power generation grew by 6.18 per cent to 674.492 BU as compared to the same period in the previous year,” Power and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal said in a written reply... »
Security has been fortified in the wake of militant activities in the country, to ensure the safety of emergency and vital infrastructures of the country’s energy and power sector, said the state minister for power, energy and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid. The state minister informed about the security beef-up of the country in the inauguration program of the Youth Festival-2017, organized by Haji Abul Hossain Institute of Technology (HABHIT) in... »
The state minister for power, energy and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid said that, Bangladesh have progressed much in terms of power generation but still lags behind the neighboring countries in terms of power transmission system. Nasrul Hamid explained the country’s power sector in such a way, while he was speaking as the chief guest in the 17th National Renewable Energy Expo organized at the Energy Institute of Dhaka University on... »
The state minster for power, energy and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid said, “Uninterrupted and quality power supply is now a demand of time; and it needs to be provided to the mass people as soon as possible. The state minister said so in an inauguration program of the installation of Banani 132/33/11 KV grid sub-station on Friday, where Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) handed over a land to Dhaka Electric... »
Dr Hasan Mahmud, the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of environment and forests said that, the Rampal power plant will be installed using latest technologies in every aspect, so there is no chance of damaging the environment of adjacent Sundarbans; so, too much concern about the Rampal power plant is not desirable. Dr Hasan Mahmud said so in a shadow parliamentary debate on ‘environment safety on... »
Nasrul Hamid, the state minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources said that, the government is providing 3 lacs of new electricity connections on an average in a year. The government has no indifference in giving new connections to any type of consumers, he added. The state minister answered such a way in response to a question from A K M Rahmatulla’s table at the parliament on Tuesday. He also... »