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Energy Alternatives for Bangladesh
M Azizur Rahman

Experts at a roundtable discussion underscored the necessity to diversify country’s energy sources to meet its mounting demand in industries, power plants and households.They said that too much dependency on natural gas has already put enormous pressure on country’s gas reserves, which is set to start to be exhausted from 2011 if no new discoveries take place. Country’s first and only fortnightly magazine on energy issues Energy & Power and German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) jointly organized the roundtable titled, “Energy alternatives for Bangladesh,” at the National Press Club in the city. full report

Special Article
Tariffs: Its Importance on Sustainability of Power Sector
Shah Zulfiqar Haider, PEng.

The Electric Utilities should run at least on the concept “No-Loss-No-Profit” and on “Sound financial basis and lowest possible cost”. This is essential for the sustainability of power sector. Power sector need proper Tariff to achieve it. Revenue from consumers is the main source of income for any Utility. As such the Electric lines should be constructed on “Revenue criteria”, i.e. electric line should be constructed first where we expect maximum revenue. full report