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.
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Youth empowerment for digital inclusion urged
The Centre for Policy Dialogue laid emphasis on providing young people with the tools to participate in the digital world for mitigating unemployment, fostering innovation, driving economic growth, and promoting social inclusion...
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.
Authorities have issues to shore up to ban three-wheelers
DISMANTLING battery-powered rickshaws to keep them off the main road should not be the way to deal with the threat and menace that the technically fragile vehicles pose. The Dhaka north city authorities on May 13 conducted a drive against battery-powered rickshaws and seized dozens from the main roads, declared off-limits to such vehicles, and destroyed...
Yunus urges economic, hydropower ties with Nepal
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday called for an integrated economic strategy among Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Seven North Eastern States of India, emphasising the potential of cross-border collaboration in hydropower, healthcare, and road connectivity...
United Power resumes electricity operation at DEPZ plant
United Power Generation and Distribution Company Ltd has resumed operations at its power plant in Dhaka Export Processing Zone after the restoration of gas supply...
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...
Magistracy power of armed forces extended for 2 more months
The government on Thursday again extended the magistracy power granted to the armed forces鈥� commissioned officers of the rank of captain, its equivalent, or above for another 60 days...
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...
DEPZ demands quick solution to power issue
The industrialists of the Dhaka Export Processing Zone urged the government to resolute the existing electricity issues as soon as possible as it may hinder the country鈥檚 businesses...
Stray kite string blamed for April grid failure
A kite string falling on a power transmission line on April 26 caused a massive short circuit, severing electricity supply to 21 districts, a recent probe found, highlighting the risks for the national power grid arising out of its close proximity to human settlements...
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...
Energypac organises fire safety training at school
Energypac Power Generation PLC has recently held a fire safety campaign at Shailat High School located in Sripur, Gazipur with a view to raising awareness among the students, teachers and staff of the school about fire safety protocols...
Power sector managers need to ensure quality control
THE absence of a quality control mechanism in the power sector has led to extra fuel costs in power generation. A recent Power Development Board analysis shows that some plants consume up to 90 per cent more fuel than others do. The finding indicates an overall power management failure in stopping the leak of the already scanty supplies of imported fuels...
Buying of 200 vehicles for police approved
A meeting of the advisory council on economic affairs on Tuesday approved a proposal from the ministry of home affairs for purchasing 200 double cabin pick-ups for the Bangladesh Police...
DEPZ comes to halt as gas supply stopped聽
At least five factories were shut down and production got disrupted in all the 90 factories in the Dhaka Export Processing Zone on Tuesday following a suspension of the gas connection to the plant supplying electricity to the industrial area.
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.
BTMA urges adviser to solve gas problems
The country鈥檚 textile millers demanded raising the bulk consumer limit for captive power gas connections to 20 megawatts from the existing 10 MW...
Energypac attends JAC Global Partners Conference
Energypac Power Generation PLC, partner of JAC Motors in Bangladesh, participated in the聽JAC Global Partners Conference 2025 in Hefei of China recently...
Committees formed to probe 2nd grid failure聽in 46 days
The government has formed two committees to investigate the national power grid failure that caused six major power plants to trip on Saturday, affecting millions in southern, south-western and central Bangladesh amidst a heatwave.
Committee formed to probe power disruption in Dhaka, Southern districts
The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources has formed an eight-member committee to investigate the power outages in 21 districts, including parts of Dhaka, Barishal, and Khulna divisions...
Grid failure causes power cut in 21 dists
The national power grid failed and remained out of order for more than an hour in 21 south-western districts of the country on Saturday.
End to AL-made discriminatory energy system demanded
Speakers at an energy fest in the capital Dhaka called on the interim government to ensure energy justice by ending discrimination embedded in the current power and energy system...
Capacity charge ills should not menace power sector
THIS is unfortunate that the capacity charge 鈥� the money that the Power Development Board pays power-sector investors even when the plants do not produce electricity, with an aim to cover the loans that the plants receive, along with interests, salaries of the employees and returns on the equity 鈥� continues even after the political changeover of August 5, 2024, with the...
Worrying signs of arrogance of power
THE attack on a police constable inside the courtroom of the Pabna district and sessions judges court on April 15 by leaders and activists of local units of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party is yet another worrying sign of the arrogance of power. The police constable was beaten allegedly for stopping the BNP activists from recording a video and taking photographs inside the...
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.
Model Meghna on 30-day detention under Special Powers Act 1974
Model and Miss Bangladesh Foundation chairperson Meghna Alam, who was detained by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 Detective Branch Wednesday afternoon, was placed on a 30-day detention under the Special Powers Act, 1974...
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�...
