The state-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has chalked out plans to build the country’s first naphtha-based power plant in Chittagong, but has not ensured its primary fuel sources. According to the BPDB, a tender has been floated to build a naphtha-based power project. It will require around 250 metric tonnes of naphtha every day ... Read more
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Power fund unutilised as PDB fails to draft guideline
The state-run Power Development Board, even six months after it was asked to do so, has still not drafted any guidelines on how the new Power Maintenance and Development Fund should be used for increasing power generation in the old plants. On February 8 this year, the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission asked the PDB to ... Read more
1,000MW more by June
The Power Development Board would supply an additional 1,000MW of power to the national grid by June from rental power plants. Referring to the development in the implementation of rental power projects, the board chairman ASM Alamgir Kabir, told New Age that they were expecting 1000MW of additional
Power price hike likely from March
Power prices the consumers pay to distribution agencies are likely to increase immediately after the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission announces an increase in the rate at which such as agencies will be buying electricity. The commission’s member Salim Mahmud told New Age that the commission would