AN UNEVEN development of the power sector, riding on a wrong policy and supported by the now-repealed energy indemnity law, is more pronounced with a decline in the power demand since the onset of the winter. A low demand for power shows the abnormal extent of power overcapacity. About three quarters of the installed power generation capacity...
The government is formulating a merchant power policy to unburden its power and energy sector liabilities...
THE likely increase in the losses of the Bangladesh Power Development Board by almost 200 per cent in 2025 suggests a deplorable absence of measures to amend the power policy, which is burdened by, among others, an abnormal level of overcapacity and an absurd capacity charge system...
THE government mulling over an increase in power price four times a year for the next three years to reduce subsidy is unacceptable and an injustice to consumers. Power Division officials are reported to have proposed the increase to a visiting International Monetary Fund mission that has...