Dhaka Thursday, Jun 4, 2026
- Electricity Prices Increased for All Consumers
- Price of 12kg LPG Cylinder Reduced by Tk 55
- 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 and China on Friday signed 27 MoUs and framework agreements, including Payra Coal-Fired Plant’s Credit Deal. Of the deals, 15 are MoUs and 12 are loan and framework agreements. Chinese President Xi Jinping who arrived here earlier in the morning on a historic 22-hour state visit and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina witnessed the signing of the MoUs and agreements. They also jointly unveiled six projects, including multi-lane tunnel beneath... » 
A power outage after a fire an underground cable facility on the outskirts of Tokyo left some 350,000 households without electricity on Wednesday afternoon, but all power was restored in about an hour. The blackout occurred at 3:30 p.m. local time (0630 GMT) and affected as many as 350,000 households at one point, but all power was back on line by 4:25 p.m. (0725 GMT). There was a cable fire... »
Bangladesh has finalized the decision to import 100 MW more power form Tripura. The ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral resources has confirmed the news by a press release. The decision was finalized in a bilateral meeting between the two country’s power divisional personnel that held on last Wednesday. Nasrul Hamid, the state minister for Bangladesh’s Power, Energy and Mineral resources and Piyush Goyal, the Indian state minister for Power,... »
PInfrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL), the largest energy and infrastructure financier of the country, has been invited by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to provide knowledge and capacity building support to the national power utility of Cambodia. IDCOL’s ground-breaking works in off-grid electrification, particularly in dissemination of Solar Home Systems, has gained global attention as one of the largest and most successful off-grid electrification programs in the world. More than... » 
A credit deal of $1.9 billion is signed on 14 October to build the 1,320MW coal-fired power plant of Pyra. China’s Exim Bank is giving this credit at an interest rate of just above 2 percent, claimed the sources. Bangladesh-China Power Company Ltd (BCPCL), which is a joint-venture between the state-run North-West Power Generation Company of Bangladesh and Chinese Power Company is going to implement this power plant in Pyra,... » 
Bangladesh is about to seek $26 billion for 21 different projects of the country’s power sector from China during the upcoming visit of the Chinese president Xi Jinping. Power division has formally submitted its requisition paper addressing that amount of funding to the Economic Relations Division (ERD). Recently in an inter-ministry meeting chaired by ERD additional secretary Abul Monsur Mohammad Fayjulla, the Power division has proposed the name and funding... » 
A credit deal of $1.9 billion is likely to be signed in the upcoming month of October to build the 1,320MW coal-fired power plant of Pyra. China’s Exim Bank is giving this credit at an interest rate of just above 2 percent, claimed the sources. The Standing Committee on Concessional Loan from the Finance ministry led by the Finance minister himself has approved the conditions of the credit deal recently.... » 
The government will respond to UNESCO’s concern over the Rampal power plant near the Sundarbans within a week, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said. He was speaking to reporters after inaugurating a workshop on research in power and energy sector at Bidyut Bhaban on Sunday. The Maitree Super Thermal Power Project is a joint venture by India and Bangladesh and will come up at... » 
The newly formed North-West Zone Power Distribution Company Ltd. (NWZPDC), a detached distribution wing of the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB or PDB) is likely to start its operation from 1st October. Sources from PDB has further confirmed that, the operation of company’s asset valuation is going on currently. The NWZPDC will operate in the Rajshahi regions. A Power Purchase Agreement is already being signed between the PDB and the... » 
A plan by NTPC to build a power plant in Trincomalee in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province, has been scrapped following the country’s decision to switch from coal to renewable energy sources. Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Power and Energy on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it would drop its plan to build a coal power plant in Sampur, Trincomalee, after environmentalists raised serious concerns. Officials at the Indian High Commission... »