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Energy & Power
Managing Energy Supplies Smartly In 2025
Ensuring a smooth fuel supply is the main challenge of the interim government in 2025.
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EP_22_15 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 15 Jan 16, 2025)
Energy & Power
CONCERN PERSISTS OVER SHORTAGE OF NATURAL GAS
Not unsurprisingly the country has once again been in the grip of a gas crisis.
2 min |
EP_22_15 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 15 Jan 16, 2025)
Energy & Power
OPEC Cuts To COP29 Global Energy Market In 2024
The global energy landscape has witnessed TH a series of developments in 2024: a surge in renewable energy adoption, transformative geopolitical strategies, and the continued efforts of leading oilproducing nations to stabilize prices through voluntary cuts.
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EP_22_15 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 15 Jan 16, 2025)
Energy & Power
Summer Load To Be Tough To Deal With
Bangladesh's electricity demand is set to rise significantly in summer to 17,500–18,000 MW, straining supply despite an installed capacity of 27,820 MW. The key challenge is ensuring an adequate fuel supply—gas, coal, and furnace oil—amid financial constraints.
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EP_22_15 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 15 Jan 16, 2025)
Energy & Power
Smartly Addressing Energy Sector Priorities
The energy sector needs to be smarter and more efficient in confronting and managing the emerging crisis that may affect energy security from March 2025 onwards.
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EP_22_15 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 15 Jan 16, 2025)
Energy & Power
Rooftop Solar Can Help BREB Reduce Losses, Say Experts
Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (REB) can minimize its losses by adopting a household rooftop solar model in areas where there are fewer industrial electricity connections, experts said.
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EP_22_15 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 15 Jan 16, 2025)
Energy & Power
Scientists Struggle to Explain Record Surge in Global Heat
The world has been getting hotter for decades but a sudden and extraordinary surge in heat has sent the climate deeper into uncharted territory -- and scientists are still trying to figure out why.
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EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
WB Approves $1.16b for Climate-Resilient Development
The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved three operations totaling US$1.16 billion to help Bangladesh improve health services, boost water and sanitation services and achieve greener and climate-resilient development.
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EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Joint Operations will be Strengthened against Hill Cutting: Environment Advisor
Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Advisor to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, recently stated that district administrations, city corporations, and the Department of Environment will strengthen joint mobile courts to combat hill cutting, air pollution, and the use of banned polythene.
1 min |
EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Bangladesh's First Climate-Smart Steel Plant to be Built with IFC Fund
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has partnered with Meghna Re-Rolling & Steel Mills Limited, a sister concern of Meghna Group of Industries to establish Bangladesh’s first climate smart steel plant.
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EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Capacity Building Essential to Tackle Climate Change: Rizwana
Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Advisor to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change and the Ministry of Water Resources, emphasized the need to enhance the nation's capacity to address climate change, allocate a larger budget, and ensure its proper utilization.
1 min |
EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
UN Regional Commissions Call for Just, Sustainable Energy Transition
The Regional Commissions will advance actions to, inter alia: empower youth participation in regional dialogues; and support UN-Energy in mobilizing international efforts, building partnerships, and scaling up finance to achieve SDG 7 and address interlinkages with other SDGs.
1 min |
EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Canada Unveils 2035 Climate Goal Critics Say is Weak
Canada released recently what it called an achievable 2035 greenhouse gas reduction target that environmental groups panned as not ambitious enough.
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EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
PRAN-RFL Reveals Sustainability Report with 100% Plastic Recycling Goal by 2030
PRAN-RFL Group has released its sustainability report for 2023 on 22 December, reflecting its commitment to improving current well-being and ensuring a sustainable future for all.
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EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Forests, Wetlands to be Included in New NDC: Rizwana
Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan recently said that land, forests, and wetlands would be included in Bangladesh's new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) to strengthen the country’s climate mitigation efforts.
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EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Rizwana Warns of Scrapping Outdated City Buses
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan recently warned that old and outdated buses polluting the air in Dhaka will be scrapped.
1 min |
EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
RE Investors Call for Better Policies to Attract FDI
Investors in the sector have expressed concern that suddenly canceling all the solar power plant projects, which have been approved and are in progress, will discourage foreign investors from entering this sector.
1 min |
EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Mostafa AI Mahmud Elected President, Ataur Rahman Sarkar GS of BSREA
Chairman and Managing Director of G-Tech Solution Limited Mostafa Al Mahmud and Chairman of the Filament Engineering Ltd Engr.
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EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Land Scarcity for Solar Power in Bangladesh: It's a Myth
Using just 10 percent of the government's khas lands nationwide could meet the country's entire electricity demand through solar power, as per a study by Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network.
1 min |
EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Renewables may Meet 37pc Avg Peak Power Demand by 2030
Stakeholders at a recent event said about 37 percent of Bangladesh's average peak electricity demand could be met through renewable energy sources by 2030.
1 min |
EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Chinese Businesses Interested in Investing in Bangladesh's RE Sector
A high-level business delegation from China has expressed strong interest in investing in Bangladesh to support the country's renewable energy goals, particularly in solar energy.
1 min |
EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
USAID Launches $17m Clean Energy Project
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) recently launched a $17 million five-year, flagship clean project to improve access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy systems to promote transparent and efficient energy markets in Bangladesh.
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EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Bangladesh Seeks Consultants for Solar Feasibility Study
The Bangladesh Public Procurement Authority is searching for consultants to complete a feasibility study for the construction of a solar park.
1 min |
EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Bangladesh Moving Towards Sustainable Power Policy: Energy Adviser
The primary goal of the former government in the power and energy sector seemed to be enabling corruption rather than achieving sustainable development, said Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, adviser to the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources.
1 min |
EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
92% of Summit Group's Power Capacity Operational
Summit Group has reported that 92% of its power production capacity is currently active.
1 min |
EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
1,320MW Payra Plant Shut for Maintenance, New Unit Tests
The Payra thermal power plant in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali has halted production to conduct maintenance and facilitate the test commissioning of a neighboring facility, according to officials of the 1,320-megawatt (MW) coalfired power station.
1 min |
EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
ACC Lunches Probe into Alleged RNPP Project Graft
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has initiated an enquiry into allegations of corruption, embezzlement and money laundering involved in Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project.
1 min |
EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
VR Revolutionizes Training, Operations in Oil, Gas Industry: GlobalData
Virtual reality (VR) primarily has applications around training across the oil and gas value chain, i.e., from rigs and pipelines to refineries.
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EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Nuclear Roadblock to EU's New RE Target
Recently, pronuclear countries expressed their opposition to the European Union's plans for a renewable energy goal.
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EP_22_14 (Energy & Power Vol 22 Issue 14 January 1, 2025)
Energy & Power
Russia's 70MW FNPP can Power a City with 1 Lakh Residents
The world’s only floating nuclear power plant (FNPP), Academic Lomonosov, owned by Rosatom, has the potential to meet the electricity demand of a city with up to 100,000 residents.
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