The 1,496MW Adani power plant in India shut the other unit on Saturday citing technical glitches four days after its one unit went out of operation, hardening challenges to Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government to meet the country鈥檚 growing power demand as summer peaks.
Load shedding exceeded 400MW on Wednesday, despite maximum use of oil-based power generation capacity, after a unit of the Adani power plant in India tripped, marking a sudden drop in the power supply...
The Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company Limited has sent a statement in reaction to the 抖阴精品 report published on March 29 titled 鈥楶ower plants exaggerate bills.鈥�...
Major joint venture power plants allegedly exaggerating their bills all the way, from manipulating invoices to misinterpreting deals, offers a glimpse into power sector ill practices.
Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant authorities have successfully conducted the hydraulic pressure tests in first of their two-unit under-built plant, a statement of its Russian builder Rosatom said.
Indian nationals working at the Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company are drawing an average monthly salary of more than Tk 10 lakh, revealed a financial review by the Bangladesh Power Development Board.
The Bangladesh Power Development Board did not pay last two months鈥� bill to the Barapukuria coal mine company for the coal bought to run the Barapukuria coal power plant, citing excessively high price.
Coal stacks three times the usual height, rising up to 15 meters, smouldered at the Barapukuria coal mine as the 525MW coal-fired Barapukuria power plant shut down its last two units since聽 February 15 due to technical glitches triggered by years of lack of maintenance...
The 1320-MW Rampal power plant, a joint venture between state-owned power companies of India and Bangladesh, shut down early Friday, drawing on the force majeure clause of the power purchase agreement between the parties.
THE capacity charge, which the government pays independent and rental power plants when they sit idle as a guarantee of returns on investment coupled with profits, is set to reach Tk 380 billion in the 2025 financial year.聽 This is a 46 per cent, or Tk 120 billion, increase on the capacity charge of Tk 260 billion that the government paid the power producers in the...
Patuakhali 1320 MW Thermal Power Plant started its trial production early Sunday...
Russian ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander Khozin on Sunday expressed optimism over settling the debt repayment issues for the Russia-funded Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, stressing that...
A Russian worker was found dead in a washroom of the residential Green City of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project in Pabna, police said on Friday.
PETROBANGLA鈥橲 proposal seeking an increase in gas prices supplied to industries and captive power plants by 152 per cent and 140 per cent respectively, which the government says is unpleasant and unavoidable, is worrying in that industrialists say that such a move would increase production cost that will eventually fall on consumers. Whilst the...
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission is evaluating a Petrobangla鈥檚 proposal to increase by up to 152 per cent the price of gas supplied to industries and captive power plants...
Summit Corporation Limited is now operating 15 power plants out of 18, said a press release on Thursday...
The High Court on Sunday issued a rule questioning the Anti-Corruption Commission and government authorities over their inaction in investigating corruption allegations against former prime minister...
Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal Fired Power Plant will go for 1200MW electricity generation from Friday, as coal is imported for power generation.
Investment in Meghnaghat 718 MW power plant in Bangladesh by Japanese company JERA now stands at $1 billion, said a press release.
Bangladesh paid over Tk 1 trillion in capacity charge to power plants during the 14 years of rule of the immediate-past and now ousted Awami League government until 2023...
One unit of the Payra 1320 MW thermal power plant in Patuakhali, Bangladesh will remain out of service for the next two months for essential maintenance, according to plant officials.
Seventeen state-owned power plants that generated no electricity at all during the past fiscal year spent over Tk 1,549 crore and also consumed 56.78 lakh units of electricity from the national grid.
The government鈥檚 latest assessment of environmental and other compliances of the Rampal power plant has revealed rampant violations, exposing lives and nature to the hazards predicted by...
Cuba was racing Friday to restore electricity after the failure of the island's biggest power plant caused a nationwide blackout, coming on the heels of weeks of extended outages across the cash-strapped country.
Coal-fired power plants enjoy free rein to unfairly influence the cost of its fuel on the one hand, while on the other, they burn coal having quality far less than the one the government has paid...
Foreign secretary Ambassador Md Jashim Uddin on Wednesday thanked Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander Vikentyevich Mantytskiy for Russian Federation鈥檚 ongoing support, particularly in the implementation of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project...
The Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant in Dinajpur has resumed partial electricity production after three days.
The Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant in Dinajpur has ceased operations after all three of its power-generating units became non-operational.
Two private power plants have been receiving gas supply from the two subsidiaries of the state-owned Petrobangla at public power plant鈥檚 rate, but after producing electricity, selling it at commercial rate to two export processing zones...
A writ petition was filed on Tuesday with the High Court, seeking a directive for the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate allegations against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her family members, and her former defence and security adviser, Tarique Ahmed Siddique, over the alleged embezzlement of $5 billion from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project...