State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid today laid emphasis on installing pre-paid meters to make effective contributions to the economical use of electricity and gas. Pre-paid meters would make an effective contribution to the economical use of electricity
Repeated power tariff hikes heap misery on people
UNB
20th December, 2020 09:55:29
Notwithstanding an exponential growth in electricity generation, the repeated power tariff hikes across Bangladesh will only burden the consumers, eminent economist Dr Ahsan H Mansur has said.
“Electricity has to be provided at an affordable rate,” the executive director of Policy Research Institute (PRI), a think tank, said on Saturday at a webinar 50 years of Victory & Progress of Power Sector organised by the Forum for Energy Reporters Bangladesh (FERB) in association with Bangladesh Independent Power Producers Association (BIPPA).
Though there is adequate electricity generation, Mansur said that stable and quality power is not available . Bangladesh’s dependency on imported primary fuel will continue for a long as our own natural gas resource is not explored. Still there is a big challenge for mitigating primary fuel supply in ensuring energy security.