Country’s first commercial wind power plant starts production

Bangladesh has achieved a new milestone in its renewable energy ambition, with the country’s first commercial wind power plant going into full production this month. The wind power plant in Cox’s Bazar, boasting a capacity of 60 megawatts, started full-scale operation on 8 March and has been running smoothly ever since, according to Nirod Chandra Mondal, joint secretary (renewable energy) at the Power Division.

Scaling up rooftop solar deployment in Bangladesh

Energy and Power magazine and Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) had jointly organised webinar titled “Scaling Up Rooftop Solar Deployment in Bangladesh”. In the webinar Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)’s Shafiqul Alam said, “Bangladesh currently has 166.28MW capacity under both net-metered and non-net-metered systems. With several rounds of power tariff adjustments in the last one and a half years, rooftop solar is more economically compelling now than ever.”