Energy Bangla

The National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas-Natural Resources and Power-Port once more claimed to stay away from installing the Rampal Power Plant or to move it to somewhere else. The leaders from 53 different social and environmental and other organizations merged with the national committee towards the Rampal issue and organized a Press Conference on Wednesday. The press conference was held at Dhaka Reporters Unity. Sultana Kamal, the Convener of the... »

A  joint venture between state-owned North-West Power Generation Company and Singaporean private firm Sembcrop signed a contract Monday to set up a 414 MW dual-fuel combined cycle power plant in Sirajganj by December 2018. The Singaporean company entered into a 71:29 joint venture with the North-West Power Company to implement the project. The JV called “Sembcrop North-West Power Company” will invest $412.5m to set up the project. In the equity,... »

The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of ‘The Power Bill, 2016’ keeping a provision of harsher punishment of maximum 10 years jail and Tk 10 crore fine or both for carrying out any act of sabotage in any electricity infrastructure. The draft law also has a provision for introducing independent system operator (ISO) to operate the country’s power system in a coordinated manner, reports UNB. The approval... »

The government has finalized a plan to install as many as 1 crore 32 lacs and 36 thousands of prepaid meters in the next five years (2016-2021) and Rural Electrification Board (REB) of Bangladesh alone will be responsible for installing 1 crore of them. A discussion program was organized titled “Introducing Prepaid Meter system for customer Service” on the occasion of intl. Public Service day in the Mukti hall of... »

The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports announced to hold a countrywide sit-in program on 20th August to repeal the project of Rampal. Prof Anu Mohammad, the National Committee member secretary made the call for this sit-in program in a protest rally held in front of the National Press club on Saturday. Prof Anu remarked that, there is always an alternative to installing a particular... »

The deadline of the Tender of JICA (Japan Intl. Co-operation Agency) funded 1,200 MW Matarbari Power Plant has been extended. As reported by the Coal Power Generation Company (CPGC), the executing agency, 24th of July, 2016 was the last date of tender submission, which is currently extended to 24th of August, 2016. JICA asked for the extension of the deadline due to the security reasons in the wake of Gulshan... »

Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB or REB) has a plan to ensure electricity for 95 percent of the rural vicinities of the country within 2018. REB and its member 78 Palli Bidyut Samiti (PBS) have agreed to improve the quality of service and to lowering the system losses. A conference was arranged in the city and it lasted for two days- Friday and Saturday, where General Managers of all 78... »

Bangladesh Power Development Board has awarded a $117 million order to a consortium led by General Electric for repowering of the Unit 3 of Ghorashal power plant, the largest power station in the country. GE said this would be the country’s first repowering project, which will increase the power generation capacity by adding over 200 megawatts of clean power to the national grid. The US-based company has formed the consortium... »

Some of the questions raised about the 2×660 MW Maitree Super Thermal Power Project at Rampal. Environmentalists have raised this question. The Power plant authorities have responded to this question. The answer to the question is highlighted for Energy Bangla readers. Here are a couple of answers to the question of authority. Q1. Is SCR (Selective Catalyst Reactor) or some other low NOx technology being used to reduce NOx emission?... »

The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved eight projects, including the project for increasing capacity of Dhaka-Chittagong main power grid. The estimated cost of the eight projects is Taka 7,868.30 crore, of which Taka 4301 crore will come as project assistance. The approval was given at a meeting of the ECNEC held at NEC conference room at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar with ECNEC Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina... »