4th October 2019
EP Report

The government is working towards increasing the country’s power generation capacity to 60,000 megawatt (MW) by 2041. The current capacity is 22,329MW.

The country requires US $40 billion investment to increase electricity generation to 60,000MW by 2041, according to officials.

“The power generation capacity has reached 22,329 MW and relentless efforts are underway to raise the capacity to 24,000MW by 2021,” said a power ministry official.

He said in the last decade, the government signed several deals for setting up 148 power plants having generation capacity of 29,648MW. Meanwhile, 121 power plants were commissioned, which added 15,573MW power to the national grid. The generation capacity was only 3,200MW in 2009.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said the power generation capacity of the country has reached over 22,329MW and the government is working relentlessly to raise the capacity to 24,000MW by 2021.

“We have a target to ensure uninterrupted power supply to every citizen at affordable prices by 2021. By 2030, the country’s power generation capacity will reach 40,000MW and by 2041 it will go up further to 60,000MW,” he said.


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