22nd January 2023
EP Report

The government is mulling to establish another on-grid solar power plant in Rangamati's Kaptai upazila, as part of its efforts to generate 10% of electricity from renewable sources by 2025.

 

The Bangladesh Power Development Board approved the 7.6-megawatt solar power plant proposal in principle at its board meeting on 28 November last year, according to ATM Abduzzaher, manager of Karnaphuli Hydropower Station that helps the PDB in the preliminary works for the new project.

 

Later on 28-30 December, a team from the Planning Commission visited the 23.06-acre land proposed for the solar plant in the Brickfield area of Kaptai, he noted and added that the detailed plan including the project cost is yet to be prepared.

 

Earlier in 2019, the government set up a 7.4MW solar power plant near the Karnaphuli Hydropower Station at Kaptai of Rangamati. It was the country's first solar power plant connected to the national grid directly.


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