The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday decided to raise both the bulk and retail prices of electricity for the third time this year with effect from 1 September, said officials. The BERC, however, has not yet fixed the new rate. It will announce the new price of electricity between September 7 and September 10 ... Read more
Power price
Increased living, production costs feared
Manjurul Ahsan The series of increase in prices of fuel oils and power has kept inflation going up, putting fixed and lower- to middle-income people into misery and adding to industrial production cost After the government has increased fuel oil prices on several occasions in a year, the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday increased ... Read more
Power tariff hiked again
Retail level users to pay 13pc higher effective from Dec 1, another 7pc hike from Feb 1; rise draws flak Electricity price has gone up by Tk 0.55 per unit from December 1 for all retail customers across the country, dealing a blow to general users who consume less. The price of per kilowatt hour ... Read more
Power price goes up from today
The government is going to increase power price at subscriber’s level today. “The announcement in this regard will be made on Thursday,” Chairman of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commissions Yusuf Hossain told The Independent on Wednesday. “But I cannot say anything more than this right now” he
People say power price increase to add to woes
A cross section of the people has adversely reacted to the power price increase as it will add to their sufferings. Experts, politicians, businessmen and common people think that power price increase would push up essential goods prices that have already hit hard low- and middle-income
Power prices go up
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission at a press briefing in its office on Tuesday increased both the retail and bulk prices of electricity with effect from February 1. The commission increased the retail price of electricity without any open meeting and public hearing. Consumers will now need to pay to the power distribution agencies
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
Power price to go up next month
Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission officials at a public hearing at the commission on Wednesday proposed a 21 per cent increase in average bulk rate of electricity, at which the Power Development Board will sell it to distribution agencies, likely to be effective from February, The officials also proposed that the government should allocate to the ... Read more