Sunday, November 10, 2024

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 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 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