Emran Hossain | Published: 00:07, Jan 02,2021 | Updated: 00:13, Jan 02,2021
A balance between the capacity to generate and the capability to use electricity remains a major challenge for Bangladesh as the generation capacity has been enhanced without developing commensurate transmission and distribution networks.
The country’s annual spending on the idle power plants has increased 300 per cent over the last decade with the highest amount of Tk 108 billion paid in 2019–20. Over the past decade the idle power plants have been paid nearly Tk 600 billion.
The price of power has seen a 98 per cent rise over the last decade as the government has tried to rein in the sector’s increasing deficit that is, experts predict, likely to go up further with the government continuing to increase the power generation capacity.