Zahid Hasan

Despite government efforts to solve the power crisis, the situation has worsened further as gas supply shortage forced to keep a number of power plants in the country to utilise their full capacity.
In this backdrop, the country is reeling under several hours of load shedding a day due to significant fall in electricity production.
“The country’s overall electricity generation in peak hours was hovering around 4,114 megawatts (MW) Monday, against the demand of 5,350 MW, and power deficiency was reached 1,183 MW on the day,” a high official of Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB) told The New Nation, preferring anonymity. [Read More]

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Source: The New Nation