Cities suffered an unprecedented spell of power outage on Tuesday, over five hours at a stretch, as barely 12,500MW of electricity on average was produced, using 45 per cent of the country’s installed power generation capacity.

The interim government has approved the initiative to import 40 megawatts of hydroelectric power from Nepal to Bangladesh, a project that was undertaken during the ousted Sheikh Hasina-led government in June this year.

Bangladesh Working Group on Ecology and Development sent an open letter to chief adviser Muhammad Yunus on Sunday recommending a set of 16 changes in the energy and power sector for ensuring good governance and eliminating corruption.

The group, owned by businessman Salman F Rahman – who served deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina as her private industry and investment adviser – stated that if the plant is damaged, it will not be possible for the company to repay the loan instalments taken through Sukuk bonds

PHP Family – a leading industrial conglomerate in Bangladesh – is planning to add a new dimension to the country’s solar energy sector. The company has taken an initiative to generate its own electricity by installing solar panels on the roofs of its textile and steel mills.

Bangladesh's struggle to foot liquefied natural gas (LNG) import bills is set to skyrocket in two years, as the country allegedly signed purchase deals at higher costs than the contemporary market rates

Climate rights activists on Saturday at a press conference in Dhaka demanded the cancellation of the Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan 2022-2041, National Adaptation Plan 2023-2050 and reformation of the Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund.

The Adani Group has called on Bangladesh to expedite the country's current outstanding payments surpassing $800 million to Adani Power Ltd.

At a recent seminar titled "Challenges in Reforms in Energy and Power Sector" on September 4, two of the country's leading energy sector experts, BUET Professor Dr. Tamim and Dr. Ijaz Hossain spoke. Dr. Ijaz presented the key note paper in which major issues plaguing the energy and power sectors were discussed - how we got into this mess and what reforms could be initiated to start the journey on the road to recovery.

In a first for Bangladesh, the country's interim government is going to import liquified natural gas (LNG) purchased from the spot market in accordance with the Public Procurement Rules 2008.

Irregularities and corruption in the country’s power and energy sector resulted in an average of $1 billion in annual gas theft over the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, with these losses showing up as “system loss.”

The Advisers Council Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved a proposal in principle for procuring LNG from the spot market to meet the emergency demand for gas in the country.

BPDB being deprived of a profit of Tk 800 crore annually

Local power plants, fertiliser factories, and other entities owe Petrobangla around Tk28,707 crore

The two-day energy finance conference of the US-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis began in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday with a call on the governments of Asian countries to accelerate energy transition to get rid of costly and unreliable fossil fuels.