Government must expedite efforts to resolve the crisis
Government officials involved have been allowed legal impunity under the provisions of this law.
Power generation not growing in line with forecasted spike in demand, leaving people staring at frequent and extended power cuts.
Strangely enough, although the government is unable to meet power needs, it pays thousands of crores to government and private power plants as fixed charges or capacity charges every month with taxpayers’ money.
Some parts of Dhaka will experience power disruption for the next seven days due to maintenance work of transmission system, said a press release of power division
What impacts will the recent electricity price hike bring, in the context of the ongoing inflation?
Given the energy crisis, the youth have been experiencing a myriad of issues.
Gamers operate on a different league of insanity when their monitors suddenly go dark in front of their eyes.
If needed electricity supply to other sectors will be halted during the daytime in order to increase supply of electricity to industries and agriculture, said Prime Minister's Energy Affairs Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury today (October 23, 2022).
In the last six years, the Awami League government has made significant progress in the power sector virtually eliminating the phenomenon of load shedding. But this success may grind to a halt in the near future as the government's new plans to build two dozen large coal power plants are going nowhere fast.
