Staff Correspondent:
Dhaka, Sept-25,
State Minister for
Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid today said the government
adopted a year-based plan to achieve targets of the renewable energy policy.
“Activities are being
carried out in accordance with the Roadmap-2030 for evaluation of renewable
energy resources and power generation from renewable sources,” he told this in
a video message at the UN High-Level Dialogue on Energy yesterday.
The state minister said
the draft roadmap for solar power-2041 is being reviewed, adding, “More than 20
million rural off-grid people across the country were brought under solar home
system.”
“In the context of
Bangladesh, solar power is more likely than other renewable energy sources. But
it takes more land so innovative solutions are needed for solar power. Although
we are moving towards rooftop solar and floating solar technology,” he said.
Nasrul said net
metering system has been introduced to popularize rooftop solar power. “There
are opportunities to do more with wind power. Wind mapping was done at nine
sites and research will be conducted about offshore winds soon,” he added.
“We want to increase
the share of power generation from renewable sources to 40% of our production
mix by 2050. Therefore, the power master plan is being updated,” the state
minister said.
He said LNG and nuclear
power were being introduced to generate base load electricity as well as power
import is also being priority.
“Bangladesh is
importing 1160 MW of electricity from India. It wants to import electricity
from clean energy sources such as hydro power from Nepal and Bhutan and solar
power from India,” Nasrul added.
The high-level UN
dialogue has promised more than $400 billion in new fund and investment in
public and private sectors. The new commitments will significantly improve
installation capacity and energy efficiency of renewable energy-create millions
of new green jobs, he said.
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