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Dhaka Thursday,  Mar 28, 2024

Public Offices Under Roof Top Solar Coverage By Two Years

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Government is interested to increase the use of renewable energy. All public offices will be under roof top solar coverage by next two years. Engineer Musharraf Hossain, Minister of Ministry of Housing and Public Works, said this in a workshop titled “Solar Roof top –its Viable Option for Bangladesh” in the city arranged by SUSTAINABLE & RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (SREDA).
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Advisor to the Prime Minister for Power and Energy Tawfiq e elahi, Secretary of Power Division Monowar Islam, Engineer Muhammad Mohiuddin and the members of other stake holders were present in the Work shop.

To increase the use of solar power the government is trying to install solar panel at the roof top of the all houses. Thus installation of solar panel at the roof has been mandatory for new every electricity connection. Nowadays only 20 MW is generating at roof top with solar panel.solar seminar

Science last 5 year government executed many things to increase the use of renewable energy. Such as took initiative to install 160MW capacity wind power plant as well as wind mapping in 13 places; formed SREDA by approving “SREDA act 2012”; generating 411MW of electricity from Renewable Energy resource which is 3.6 per cent of countries total generation; installed 40 lakhs solar home system; established 262 solar irrigation pumps and gradually transforming diesel run pumps into solar pump.

Type Capacity

Solar Home System 150 MW

Solar Irrigation 2 MW

Solar Roof top( resident) 16 MW

Solar Roof top( office) 4 MW

Solar Mini grid 1 MW

Total 173 MW

Source: SREDA

Since the reserve of natural gas is depleting rapidly we need to take a look to the alternative source like solar. We have a plan to give grid connection to Sandip Island very soon though the people of the Island presently are using solar power, he said.

The present Government is placing priority on developing Renewable Energy resources to improve energy security and to establish a sustainable energy rule alongside of conventional energy sources.

The Renewable Energy Policy envisions that 5 per cent of total energy production will have to be achieved by 2015 and 10 per cent by 2020. To achieve this target, GOB is looking for various options preferably Renewable Energy resources. Under the existing generation scenario of Bangladesh, Renewable Energy has a very small share to the total generation. The share of Renewable Energy exceeds more than 1 per cent till now.

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