প্রকাশ: 19/12/2021
Power Cell director general Mohammad Hossain has said that
Bangladesh is trying to import 500 MW of hydroelectricity from Nepal.
He informed this while speaking at a webinar on “COP26 Outcome
and Its Implication on energy sector transition for Bangladesh” organized by
Energy & Power magazine.
Abul Kalam Azad, Special Envoy to CVF Presidency and
President, Bangladesh Energy Forum, Mohammad Alauddin, Chairman, Sustainable
and Renewable Energy Development Authority (SREDA), Dr. Nurul Quadir, Former
Additional Secretary and Faculty Member of North South University, Md. Ziaul
Haque, Director, Department of Environment, Dr. Mizan R Khan, Deputy Director,
International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Independent
University, Engr. Al Mudabbir Bin Anam, Programme Coordinator, Renewable Energy
and Energy Efficiency Programme, GIZ Bangladesh also spoke on the occasion.
Mohammad Hossain said Indian company GMR is developing a
1,300 MW power plant in Nepal and Bangladesh is working on to import 500 MW
from that plant.
He noted that Bangladesh needs extra power to meet the peak
demands in the summer between April and August.
He said the country has to increase its generation capacity
by 40 percent to meet this peak demand which stays for only 4-5 hours in the
daytime.
“This extra generation is not cost-effective. If we go for
regional energy cooperation to develop power exchange market, it will be
helpful for us to import such extra power from the regional sources”, he added.
Dr. Mizan R Khan said India has been a stumbling block for
regional energy cooperation because of its nationalistic attitude not to allow
multinational diplomacy with smaller countries.
He alleged that Indian current political authority is trying
to revive their founding fathers’ India-Pakistan centric two-nation theory.
He observed that there is 70,000 MW hydropower generation
potential in Nepal and Bhutan.
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