Shahjibazar power station fire plunges Habiganj into darkness
The entire Habiganj district has been left without electricity as a fire broke out at the 33/11 kV switching station of Shahjibazar Power Plant Thursday night...
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Memo signed to build 600MW solar power plant in Khulna
A memorandum of understanding was signed between Sundarban Delta Growth Initiative and the Arab contractor consortium Orascom Peninsula at the Khulna Club auditorium on Saturday, aiming to build a 600-megawatt solar power plant in Khulna, with an estimated cost of Tk 8,000 crore.
Power crisis hits north
Multiple problems hit the publicly-owned 525MW coal-based Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant, accounting for almost half of the installed power generation capacity to meet the electricity demand in Rangpur zone, with its production dropping below 50 MW on Tuesday...
RNPP likely to produce power from October
Bangladesh is expected to join over 50 countries using nuclear power peacefully as one of the two under-construction reactors of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Iswardi will go on production in October...
Interim government to review all independent power plants deals of AL regime
The government on Tuesday decided to review all the agreements on the Independent Power Plants (IPP) signed during the Awami League regime as there were widespread allegations of inconsistencies in those agreements...
Kaptai Hydropower output rises
The power generation at Kaptai Hydropower Plant in Rangamati has increased significantly following heavy rainfall that caused water levels in Kaptai Lake to rise.
ADB to fund solar power plant at NSEZ
Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority on Sunday inked Transaction Advisory Services Agreement with the Asian Development Bank for setting up Ground Mounted Solar PV (100-200MW) at National Special Economic Zone Project on a Public Private Partnership basis...
Reactor containment tested at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant
Reactor containment was successfully tested before fuel loading at the first unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant at Pakshey, Ishwardi in Bangladesh.
RAMPAL POWER PLANT:聽HC questions Indians鈥� hefty salary, bonus
The High Court on Monday issued a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks why the continued dominance of foreign employees at the Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Ltd, widely known as Rampal Power Plant, and the discriminatory pay structure between...
Power outage surges with major plants half-used
With major power plants using only half of their capacities, power cuts have surged as electricity demand has soared amidst a heatwave.
Russia to build Kazakhstan鈥檚 first nuclear power plant
Russian nuclear energy giant Rosatom will lead the construction of the first atomic power plant in Kazakhstan, the world鈥檚 top uranium producer, the Central Asian country鈥檚 authorities said on Saturday...
Rooppur Nuclear Power to join national grid by Dec: Adviser
Local government, rural development and cooperatives ministry adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain said that electricity from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant was expected to be connected to the national grid by December this year.
Govt cancels land lease of Orion鈥檚 coal power project
The lease of the land awarded by the past Awami League government to the Orion Group to build a 635MW coal-based power plant in Cox鈥檚 Bazar鈥檚 Matarbari has been cancelled.
Barapukuria power plant unit-1 resumes operation
Unit-1 of 525 MW Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant has resumed operation after two days of closer, official said on Friday.
Stranded new power assets to heighten overcapacity
Brand-new power and energy sector assets, including major power plants, are getting stranded, presenting the Bangladesh Power Development Board with new overcapacity challenges.
8 more RNPP employees suspended
Eight more officials and employees of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant have been suspended from their jobs.
18 Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant engineers dismissed
The Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Company Bangladesh Limited on Sunday dismissed 18 engineers for disobeying service rule following a week-long unrest...
144 civil society orgs against proposed Orion power plant
A total of 144 civil society organisations in the country on Monday submitted four separate open letters to the government authorities concerned, demanding the cancellation of the proposed 635-megawatt Orion coal-fired power plant...
Matarbari power as expensive聽as peers鈥�
The power tariff of the coal-fired 1,200-megawatt Matarbari power plant is going to be as high as its peers, observed energy experts, saying that the government-approved power tariff made it appear as if the tariff was lower than that of the electricity purchased from...
Some power plants guzzle 90pc more fuel than peers聽
Some power plants consume more fuel than others for generating the same amount of electricity, indicating an overall power management failure in stopping leakage of Bangladesh鈥檚 scanty supplies of imported fuels.
India's Adani stops power supply to Bangladesh as summer peaks
The 1,496MW Adani power plant in India shut the other unit on Saturday citing technical glitches four days after its one unit went out of operation, hardening challenges to Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government to meet the country鈥檚 growing power demand as summer peaks.
Load shedding exceeds 400MW after partial Adani shut down
Load shedding exceeded 400MW on Wednesday, despite maximum use of oil-based power generation capacity, after a unit of the Adani power plant in India tripped, marking a sudden drop in the power supply...
BIFPCL reacts to 抖阴精品 report
The Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company Limited has sent a statement in reaction to the 抖阴精品 report published on March 29 titled 鈥楶ower plants exaggerate bills.鈥�...
Power plants exaggerate bills
Major joint venture power plants allegedly exaggerating their bills all the way, from manipulating invoices to misinterpreting deals, offers a glimpse into power sector ill practices.
Rooppur nuclear plant runs hydraulic pressure tests
Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant authorities have successfully conducted the hydraulic pressure tests in first of their two-unit under-built plant, a statement of its Russian builder Rosatom said.
RAMPAL POWER PLANT: Indian nationals draw hefty salaries, eye-watering bonuses
Indian nationals working at the Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company are drawing an average monthly salary of more than Tk 10 lakh, revealed a financial review by the Bangladesh Power Development Board.
Power, energy divs at odds over coal price
The Bangladesh Power Development Board did not pay last two months鈥� bill to the Barapukuria coal mine company for the coal bought to run the Barapukuria coal power plant, citing excessively high price.
BARAPUKURIA: Coal stacks smoulder as power plant shuts down
Coal stacks three times the usual height, rising up to 15 meters, smouldered at the Barapukuria coal mine as the 525MW coal-fired Barapukuria power plant shut down its last two units since聽 February 15 due to technical glitches triggered by years of lack of maintenance...
Rampal power plant, jointly run by Bangladesh-India cos, shuts down
The 1320-MW Rampal power plant, a joint venture between state-owned power companies of India and Bangladesh, shut down early Friday, drawing on the force majeure clause of the power purchase agreement between the parties.
Govt should renegotiate power deals early to save economy
THE capacity charge, which the government pays independent and rental power plants when they sit idle as a guarantee of returns on investment coupled with profits, is set to reach Tk 380 billion in the 2025 financial year.聽 This is a 46 per cent, or Tk 120 billion, increase on the capacity charge of Tk 260 billion that the government paid the power producers in the...