Power distribution in Dhaka to be fully automated: Nasrul Hamid
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid. File Photo UNB, Dhaka UNB, Dhaka
A move is underway to make the power distribution system in Dhaka city fully automated to better address the complaints of consumers, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said today. Once all the consumers get the pre-paid metres, they ll have no more complaints, the state minister said while addressing a webinar.
Forum for Energy Reporters Bangladesh (FERB) organised the online seminar titled: Uninterrupted and Reliable Underground Electricity Supply in Dhaka .
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.