Dhaka, 2 September, 2020: This renewable energy solution is the first of its kind in Bangladesh edotco Bangladesh, an integrated telecommunications infrastructure services company, has built the country’s first ever 75-meter long hybrid solar wind tower in Hatiya, a remote island in the northern Bay of Bengal where commercial power connection is rare. Connectivity was also exceptionally […]
Dhaka, 19 August, 2020: The fundamental role of electricity in shaping the global economy is widely acknowledged nowadays. No country has managed to develop beyond a subsistence economy without ensuring that a large section of its population has the minimum access to electricity. Bangladesh is no exception to this requirement. The pace of development activities in […]
Dhaka, 8 August, 2020: The fundamental role of electricity in shaping the global economy is widely acknowledged nowadays. No country has managed to develop beyond a subsistence economy without ensuring that a large section of its population has the minimum access to electricity. Bangladesh is no exception to this requirement. The pace of development activities […]
Dhaka, 13 June, 2020: In the context of challenges in meeting the SDG targets by 2030 and forestalling the worst effects of climate change at the soonest, the costs of ignoring the relevant science would be too much to bear which were exacerbated by the COVID-19 – and if greenhouse gas emission increases, the risk of […]
Dhaka, 2 July, 2020: From today, central Sydney, Australia is now entirely powered by renewable energy. By using locally sourced clean energy from wind and solar farms in New South Wales, the region will now see CO2 emissions reduced by around 20,000 tonnes each year. The move will save an estimated A$500,000 (€308,000) per annum over […]
Dhaka, 26 June, 2020: This format of energy is generally defined as energy that is collected from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale. Renewable energy projects in many developing countries have also demonstrated that it can directly contribute to poverty reduction by providing the energy needed for creating businesses and employment. Renewable energy […]
Dhaka, 18 June, 2020: Bangladesh has made great strides in power generation in the last decade as about 95 percent of its population now have the access to electricity, thanks to the government's attention to renewable energy sources along with the conventional sources, says a global report. As of 2017, around 8 percent of the […]
Dhaka, 6 June: In the post Covid-19 era, renewable energy could be the best suitable option for Bangladesh to reset its power sector development policy to come out of the obligation for capacity payment to idle power plants, says a recent study. The observation was made by the Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), a US-based […]
Dhaka, 23 May, 2020: The Illinois General Assembly is working to provide relief to families, small businesses and communities that are reeling from the impacts of COVID-19. That relief should include an overdue fix to the state's renewable energy program that can save thousands of jobs while helping lower electric bills for homeowners and businesses […]
Dhaka, 5, May, 2020: The Economist’s regular cartoonist, KAL, summed it up neatly in his cartoon last week: the battle humanity is waging against the coronavirus is only the preliminary round, and after that, we have a much bigger and stronger opponent waiting for us, called the climate emergency. That some people still may think that something as […]