In this issue

The essence of power trading under SAARC energy collaboration was multilateral cooperation. But the Indian regulation 2016 was an impediment to the cooperation. India has now formulated new regulations. These regulations would facilitate seamless power trading among Bhutan, Bangladesh, India and Nepal (BBIN). Analysts observe that this would create new avenues for power trading among the four countries. The new Indian regulations corroborates with the SAARC framework agreement for cross-border power trading. Bangladesh has to enter into comprehensive multilateral agreement with the regional countries for importing 9,000 MW of power by 2041. It is not possible through bilateral agreements. India’s new regulations would facilitate this. Experts pointed out that real power trading exist in different regions of the world. In phases, power exchange or power pool for real power trading must be set up in the BBIN region. All the four countries would be benefited from this. Hydropower prospects in Nepal and Bhutan remain a strong possibility to exploit as soon as power trading in BBIN takes off. Officials said many power projects in India are lying idle. Bangladesh can extremely benefit if power can be purchased from Indian private sector through win-win contracts.

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.

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