The government has drawn up a plan to increase the price of electricity four times a year for the next three years to withdraw all subsidies in the power sector, which the IMF recommends. The plan was placed before a meeting between the visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission and... » 
Improving energy efficiency in Bangladesh could save $460 million annually and reduce reliance on costly liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports, according to a report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). As per report released today, the initiative to improve energy efficiency can help wean the country... »
Though Petroleum Transmission Company (PTC)- PLC (public limited company) was formed about two years ago as new subsidiary of the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) to take over the operations and maintenance (ONM) responsibility of the fuel transmission facilities across the country, the new entity has to wait some more years... » 
Prime Minister (PM)’s Energy Advisor Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, Bir Bikram, today said Bangladesh was facing challenge not to be created by it rather it is created by others. “Some countries were responsible for certain crises of dollar and others as current wars (in the world) created volatile situation,” he said... » 
Speakers at a webinar today (14 March 2024) echoed the ever-increasing importance of rooftop solar expansion in Bangladesh. The webinar titled Scaling up rooftop solar deployment in Bangladesh was jointly organized by the Energy & Power magazine and the global think tank Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).... » 
Bangladesh is facing a complex transition from coal-based energy, said the Global Energy Monitor in its Boom and Bust Coal 2024 report published on 11 April. This year’s report, published globally, sheds light on Bangladesh’s coal energy landscape and emphasises the importance of using renewable energy. It calls for a... » 
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon the Russian state-run ROSATOM to set up another nuclear power plant at Rooppur, if there is any scope for that. The premier made the request when ROSATOM Director General Alexey Likhachev called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban here. Briefing the reporters... » 
Benjamin Franklin says “When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” This seems very true for many urban areas and cities in the world. The mega city Dhaka is experiencing a severe water crisis in recent years. Water shortage becomes worse during the summer months. The groundwater table... » 
