Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has highlighted the plights of people displaced by the impacts of climate change and the need for addressing their vulnerabilities, when he met his Swedish counterpart Ann Linde in Stockholm. Momen was attending the two-day global Stockholm+50 conference on June 2-3, attended by world leaders…
Japan recently for the first time joined fellow members of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in pledging to end public financing for fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of the year to help combat global warming. "We commit to end new direct public support for the international unabated…
Excelerate Energy, a US-based company, is now planning to expand its business in Bangladesh. It would enhance the capacity of the two existing floating storage regasification units (FSRUs) operating in the country. Apart from these, the company would supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) as part of an integrated project. The…
Bangladesh has planned to import a total of 18 liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes from the spot market during the July-December period - 50 per cent higher than the January-June import. State-run Petrobangla will be importing the augmented quantity of expensive fuel to cope with the mounting natural gas demand…
Mobile financial service provider upay has signed an agreement with Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited to facilitate prepaid meter bill payment or prepaid card recharge through upay. Emon Kalyan Dutta, chief sales and service officer, and Md Eaqub Khan, company secretary of TGTDCL signed the agreement recently, said…
Important news keep coming from Bangladesh’s first nuclear power plant Rooppur as construction operations are progressing ahead of schedule and employees receive additional training to increase safety and efficiency of the on-site works. In late April, the first equipment installation and steel erection team from EnergoSpetsMontazh (ESM, part of Rosatom)…
A shortage of suitable sites is prompting companies to buy up land before deciding on the specifics of project construction, as a junior minister stated more solar is likely to be waved through by 2025. The rise of solar in Bangladesh has prompted some entrepreneurs to start buying up land…
Bangladesh has sought to explore three new delivery points to import electricity from India. The delivery points will include: from Jirat (India) to Jashore (Bangladesh), from Rajarjat (India) to Khulna (Bangladesh) and from Rangia (India) to Jamalpur (Bangladesh). Bangladesh and India discussed the matter at the power secretary-level meeting in…
Energypac Power Generation Limited (EPGL) Celebrated Annual JAC Day in conjunction with other countries around the world through an event in Dhaka recently. S M Jashim Uddin, CBO & GM, Motor Vehicle Division, Faiaz H Chowdhury, CBO & GM (Institutional Sales), EPGL , esteem stakeholders, and other high official members…
Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd., (TPREL), India’s largest renewable energy company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Power, has commissioned 100 MW/138MWp project for Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) in Partur, Maharashtra. It is composed of more than 411,900 monocrystalline PV modules. The project is expected to…