INDIA is investing $1 billion to accelerate the construction of 12 hydropower projects in Arunachal Pradesh, aiming to harness the state鈥檚 estimated hydropower potential of more than 57,000MW. The strategy includes developing at least 135 hydroelectric projects along the River Brahmaputra. However, building dams upstream may worsen water shortage...
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has hosted a seminar titled Captive Power Generation for Industries in Bangladesh 鈥� Overview and Recommendations at the council building on BUET campus in Dhaka recently...
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.
About four and a half months before a student-led mass uprising overthrew prime minister Sheikh Hasina, the energy ministry in an order sealed the deal on making excessive profits by the United Power, a private power generation company.
Some of the power projects approved without tender by the Awami League regime ousted in August 2024 continue to receive excessive capacity charge, up to 73 per cent more than what they should get, according to a...
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...
WATER disputes between nations frequently emerge from managing shared hydrological resources, mainly when an upstream riparian state exerts control over the source and implements large-scale infrastructural initiatives that may disrupt downstream flow dynamics. India鈥檚 extensive hydropower projects on the River Brahmaputra and...
AS 2025 dawns, Bangladesh is shaping up its commitment to cut emissions under the Paris Agreement. While the South Asian country is trying to bring its economy and governance back on track, the moment is ripe to drive a major reorientation in the country鈥檚 energy and power sector. Reforms are critical in this particular sector as its future...
The power and energy sector is set to give the interim government a rough ride in 2025 with its financial burden growing even bigger, mainly due to further increase in power overcapacity and capacity charge.聽
A LOW intake of animal protein by the large majority of people because of serious erosion in their purchasing power consequent on persistent high inflation is worrying. High inflation, which has remained more than 10 per cent for months, has pushed many people below the poverty threshold while the number of extreme poor has increased. Inflation...
Major General (retd) Monirul Islam Akhand has been appointed as managing director of Summit Power Limited...
The country鈥檚 power supply outlook for the next summer remains bleak with energy experts suggesting that optimum use of coal power capacity should be the core of the power generation plan to tackle the situation.
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The 14th annual general meeting of Baraka Patenga Power Limited, the second power plant of Baraka Group, was held online in combination with physical presence at Hotel Royal Mark in Sylhet recently.
BANGLADESH grapples with the dual challenges of climate change and high cost of fossil fuel against the dwindling foreign currency reserves. Renewable energy sources can in such a situation...
France on Saturday connected its most powerful nuclear power reactor to the national electricity grid in what leaders hailed as a landmark moment despite years of delays and technical setbacks.
Summit Corporation Limited is now operating 15 power plants out of 18, said a press release on Thursday...
Rescue teams dug for survivors trapped in crumpled buildings in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu on Wednesday after a powerful earthquake killed at least nine people, burying some in rubble and landslides...
At least 12 people were injured on Tuesday when transport workers attacked CNG-powered three-wheeler drivers in Rajshahi city, following a feud between the two groups over a prior incident, said police...
KM Rezaul Hasanat has been elected president of the Bangladesh Independent Power Producers鈥� Association recently, said a press release...
SRI Lanka鈥檚 president Anura Kumara Dissanayake鈥檚 statement that the government will not permit the erosion of its mandate for accountable government in the context of the resignation of the speaker of the parliament is on track with the promises made during the course of the elections that brought the National People鈥檚 Power to power. The president...
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...
IN THE quiet spaces between history and memory, where the weight of time presses heavily, there are forces unseen but deeply felt. Military might, cold and calculating, intertwines with the raw, untainted zeal of youth, pulsing with the hope of a future unshackled. From the dust and blood of 1971 to the turbulent echoes of 2024, the struggle for sovereignty...
Twenty-five readymade garment factories of the country on Thursday were awarded for their contribution in empowering women workers in the factory, said a press release...
The Integrated Power Master Plan is economically non-viable, speakers said at an energy conference on Wednesday...
AN UNEVEN development of the power sector, riding on a wrong policy and supported by the now-repealed energy indemnity law, is more pronounced with a decline in the power demand since the onset of the winter. A low demand for power shows the abnormal extent of power overcapacity. About three quarters of the installed power generation capacity...
More than three quarters of Bangladesh鈥檚 installed power generation capacity remained unused for a few hours in the morning since the winter officially began on the first day of December...
Finding a way out of unequal power deals, though they continue to bleed the economy, would not be so easy, speakers observed at the inaugural session of a three-day energy conference that began in Dhaka on Wednesday...
UNITED Power Generation and Distribution Co Ltd, which owns two commercial independent power plants, set up with a combined capacity of 164MW in 2008 and 2009 that supply power to the export processing zones in Dhaka and Chattogram, is reported to have been raking up an abnormal amount of money in profit, more so since 2018, when it began...