News Desk : dhakamirror.com The government has increased the retail power price again — by 5 per cent — along with an increase in the bulk price by over 8 per cent just 18 days after it had hiked the retail price on January 12 this year. The new retail prices and charges, announced for ... Read more
Power price hike
Fuel, power price hike irrational, anti-people: oil-gas body
Leaders of the national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports on Friday said that the government’s increasing power and fuel oil prices was irrational and against people. They said that the government was increasing prices in the name of reducing subsidy on power and fuel oils but did not explore cheaper ... Read more
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
13pc power tariff hike at retail level likely
Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (Berc) yesterday recommended that the retail tariff of electricity of the Power Development Board (PDB) be increased by 12.86 percent, against a proposal of 21 percent. The average retail tariff is now Tk 4.35 per unit (each kilowatt hour). During a public hearing at the Berc office in Karwan Bazar, the ... Read more
Power price hike proposal placed
Two top power distribution companies owned by the government – Power Development Board (PDB) and Dhaka Power distribution Company (DPDC) – on Wednesday placed their respective proposals to raise the price of electricity at the consumers’ level. According to the PDB proposal per unit power tariff for residential use would go up to Tk 2.80 ... Read more
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