Energy
Gas supply to remain suspended for 12 hours in Dhaka EPZ, adjacent areas
Gas supply will remain suspended for 12 hours from 6:00pm tomorrow in different areas under Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) and Nabinagar-Chandra area for emergency works in gas pipeline
Deal with Adani / Govt directed to conduct inquiry, form committee
The High Court, in the full text of an order, issued three directives over the government's electricity purchase deal with India's Adani Power Limited in 2017.
Paid Tk 20cr bribe for gas connection during AL regime: commerce adviser
Commerce Adviser Sheikh Bashir Uddin today said he had to pay a bribe of Tk 20 crore to the road authorities for digging up a road to lay the 40km gas pipeline for his industry during the previous Awami League regime
Power supply from Nepal via India begins
Electricity supply from Nepal to Bangladesh via India began yesterday in a trilateral transaction, aimed at boosting sub-regional connectivity in the power sector.
Petition seeks HC order to review power deal with Adani
A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to review or cancel the electricity agreement with Adani Group of India.
Now Payra to cut down power production by half
Amid the backdrop of all other coal-based power plants in the country, including India’s Adani, the production of a unit of Payra Thermal Power Plant went into maintenance today
Rooftop solar can reduce reliance on power grids: energy adviser
Energy Adviser Dr Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan today urged the industries to install rooftop solar power to meet their own power requirements
Set a concrete target first to achieve growth in renewable energy: a study suggests
Shah Md Ahsan Habib, a professor at the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management, conducted the study
Nat’l grid gets power from Adani on trial basis
Electricity supply from the controversial Adani power plant in Godda, Jharkhand began on a trial basis yesterday.
Adani supplies power to national grid on trial basis
Adani Power has started power supply on an experimental basis to the national grid this evening
Dr Zafrullah for repealing ‘anti-state’ power deal with Adani Group
Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury today termed the government's power deal with India's Adani Group as "anti-state" and demanded its cancellation
Environment Network calls for cancellation of Adani Power deal
The government signed the deal under conditions that hugely favour Adani Power at the cost of Bangladesh, says Bangladesh Environment Network
LPG price for March Tk 1,422
The government has reduced the price of 12kg cylinder of LPG by Tk 76
Some parts of Dhaka to be without gas supply today
Gas supply will remain suspended for eight hours -- from 2:00pm to 10:00pm -- today for all kinds of consumers in different areas in Dhaka due to emergency tie-up works of pipelines.
Some parts of Dhaka to be without gas supply tomorrow
Gas supply will remain suspended for eight hours -- from 2 pm to 10 pm – tomorrow for all kinds of consumers in different areas in Dhaka due to emergency tie-up works of pipelines
Power price hiked by 5pc again
The government increased the electricity price three times since January this year.
No power crisis after Matarbari, Banshkhali plants start production: Tawfiq-e-Elahi
Stating that energy price has been increasing due to high price of dollar followed by global turmoil, the energy advisor said Bangladesh like other countries have been facing the unrest situation
Dollar crunch raises spectre of load-shedding
Private power plants that use furnace oil risk facing severe shortage of fuel and this may result in power cuts during the hottest months of this year.