In this issue

The present government’s performance in energy sector in the last 7 years manifests remarkable success in crisis management of the power sector. But government must be extremely careful about implementing all planned and under implementation power projects on time. It must come out of flawed planning and strategies. Experts say the reliance on expensive imported liquid fuel for power plants continues for failure in medium and long-term power plant implementation. Government must ensure that mega energy projects do not go slow. Power sector witnessed huge increase in generation in last 7 years. People have now almost forgotten the load shedding. Now it is time to ensure development of transmission and distribution systems as per requirement. Government will create unbearable national crisis if it fails to extract own coal and rely exclusively on import. Government must abandon its political strategy of not exploring own coal and take decision on techno-economic point of view. Aggressive gas exploration campaign must also start preparing attractive incentive packages for the investors. If government fails to do it in the first half of 2016, serious crisis will be triggered for primary fuel supply from 2020.

Energy & Power wishes a Happy New Year 2016 to all its readers, writers, contributors, advertisers & well-wishers.

Energy & Power Magazine Description:

Energy & Power (EP) is the first and only full-fledged fortnightly magazine that deals with the much cried over energy and power sector in Bangladesh. Since its inception in June 16, 2003, EP is working very hard to 
a) Develop public consciousness on sustainable and even development of energy sector; 
b) Assist the policy makers in assuming pragmatic policies for a balanced development of the energy sector; 
c) Continuous supply of information among public; and 
d) Develop a group of reporters in this field 

Bangladesh is an energy deficit country like other countries in the region and most of the people do not have adequate access to the energy and power. The country is completely dependent on fossil energy source; at the same time, it is one of the most inefficient energy using countries in the world. 
It lacks efficiency in planning, management, generation, distribution, load management and even at the end user level consumption. 
In spite of the above drawbacks, issues relating to utilization of renewable energy, exploring alternative use of energy, planned use of environment friendly energy are significantly undermined in Bangladesh. 
The biggest challenge of Bangladesh is to find a path for balanced growth of its energy sector. Despite its resource constraints, EP dynamically strives to provide theenergy sector with a flow of information and create public awareness; so that policymakers get guidelines and platforms for its sustainable development.

Code of Ethics 
EP believes that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of a journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues and professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist's credibility. We strive to serve the public with thoroughness and honesty.

The EP editorial policy is to share a dedication to ethical behavior and uphold the zero conflict of interest principles and highest standards of practice. 

EP believes in 
o Seeking truth and reporting the same 
o Minimize harm