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Bangladesh announces 2041
green goals
Dhaka targets 40% of power from renewables by 2041
BANGLADESH THE government of Bangladesh in Dhaka has “Plans (have been put in place) to generate
announced plans to generate 40% of its nation- 40% of power from clean energy by 2041, and to
wide electricity supply from clean energy sources import about 9 GW under regional and sub-re-
by 2041, in line with a range of long-standing gional co-operation from neighbouring coun-
plans to overhaul its existing power generation tries,” Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral
mix. Resources Nasrul Hamid told local news agency
At the start of the year, renewable energy BSS during the week.
made up just 3.69%, or slightly over 951 MW, of Hamid’s ministry had previously released fig-
Dhaka’s total electricity supply. The overwhelm- ures showing that total power generation across
ing majority of the domestic mix is still reliant on Bangladesh had now reached 25.82 GW.
fossil fuels, however, most notably in the form of A further 1.16 GW of hydropower is
gas at 44.53% and heavy fuel oils at over 24% of imported, primarily from the mountainous
the total. countries of Bhutan and Nepal to the north,
Bangladesh is home to 169mn people, and for although this must pass through the Indian
decades has been one of the most impoverished states of Bihar and Assam.
nations in South Asia. The government of Bangladesh remains con-
Coal use too, despite dropping slightly in fident that it will increase its total power genera-
2021, did see a significant rebound in 2022, on tion to 40 GW by the end of the decade, then to
the back of two 660-MW power plants coming 60 GW just over a decade later, Hamid’s ministry
online in late 2021. has said.
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