Dhaka Sunday, Jun 28, 2026
- PM urges global leaders to turn climate pledges into action
- No Plan to Provide New Gas Connections to Household Sector
- All Quick Rental Power Plants Retired: Power Minister
- It Will Take Time to Break Free from the Cycle of Corruption in the Power Sector: Information Minister
- 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 Rural Electrification Board (BREB or REB) has counted its consumer crossing 1.5 crores. Earlier REB launched a program of introducing at least 1 lac new electricity connections each month and they are successful. In fact, in the last April of this year, REB instantiated 2 lac 61 thousand and 58 new connections throughout the country and thus REB crossed the 1.5 crore landmark. According to REB, currently, Palli Biddyut... »
500 MW of more electricity is likely to be added to the country’s power sector by this June. Thus, the country’s capacity of power generation will raise up to 15000 MW at least. “The country would get 500 MW power by this June and the generation capacity would reach to over 15,000MW,” State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid told on Saturday. He further said that the... »
The Power Development Board (PDB) has taken up a mega project at a cost of around TK 1100 crore in order to bring a radical change in power distribution system in greater Chittagong. The project includes construction of 1,150-kilometre-long transmission line, facelift of old lines, installation of 14 new substations and enhancement of power generation capacity of eight substations. Besides, the coastal island Sandwip, which remains out of the reach... »
The government is looking forward to sign a $220 million credit assistance agreement with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) by June for 400 MW Ashuganj (East) power plant efficiency improvement project in Bangladesh. “Hopefully, we’ll be able to sign the credit agreement for the 400MW Ashuganj (East) power plant efficiency improvement project in the country by this June. It could be either signed in Dhaka or in Jeddah,” said an... »
The government of Bangladesh has granted in-principle approval for the first phase of Reliance Power’s project in Bangladesh. The first phase of 750 MW power plant will be set up at Meghnaghat (Narayanganj district), around 40 km South-East of Dhaka, along with the FSRU terminal at Maheshkhali Island in Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh. Land at Meghnaghat will be provided by Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB). FSRU-based LNG terminal will... »
Receipt of financial transactions via computer and customer complaint receiving procedure is to be started by Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (REB). The concerns opinion is that this will bring transparency and trustworthiness in the system and provide Improved quality of customer service and reduce harassment in getting better and prompt service. On Saturday this program was launched at the regional office under Narsingdi PBS-1 in Ghorashal. PBS is to start... »
In a desperate attempt to save electricity, drought-stricken Venezuela has introduced a new concept to the workplace calendar: the five-day weekend. President Nicolás Maduro has decided to furlough the country’s public employees — who account for a third of the labor force — for the bulk of the week, so they can sit through rolling blackouts at home rather than in the office. “The public sector will work Monday and... »
Nasrul Hamid, state Minister for Power and Energy has apologised to the people in a facebook page for their sufferings due to power disruption in different parts of the country in the last one week. The minister said in his Facebook post on Wednesday that due to shortage of fuel supply the power generation dropped by 1,600 megawatt. For the last week water vessel workers were on a strike, due... »
As people keep on suffering due to frequent load-shedding amid sultry weather, State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid yesterday said it will take two to three days more to get rid of the problem. “We hope, the situation will improve within two or three days,” he said while taking to reporters at his ministry. Blaming the strike by vessel workers that heavily disrupted fuel supply to power plants,... »
People of the country have been witnessing severe power cuts for the last couple of days because of a drop in oil-based power generation resulting from a shortage of fuel supply. A strike by waterways transport workers since April 20 caused the fuel shortage forcing most of the power plants run by fuel oil to remain shut, according to officials at the Power Development Board (PDB). Transport workers have not... »