Speaking at the workshop Prof Muhammad Ibrahim, executive director of Centre for Mass Education in Science (CMES), said due to lack of awareness people do not know about this technology for the renewable energy.

Grameen Shakti, an organisation working on renewable energy, and CMES jointly organised the workshop on 'Studying Barrier and Identifying Important Measures for PV System Commercialis-ation/Development'.

Still there are lots of problems in the renewable energy sector which have to be addressed for the growth of PV technology, Ibrahim said.

He also mentioned initial cost of renewable energy is very high.

Dipal C Barua, managing director of Grameen Shakti, said his organisation, which started its journey in 1996, is working on providing remote areas with electricity.

"Grameen Shakti has so far installed 21,000 solar home systems with the capacity of more than 1 MW power across the country," he said.

"Our ambition is to install 100,000 solar home systems by 2008," he added.

In Bangladesh, only 30 percent people have access to electricity.

Barua also told the workshop the country lacks adequate training facility for renewable energy technology.

The workshop was conducted under the 'Renewable Energy Technologies in Asia: A Regional Research and Dissemination Programme' funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and coordinated by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT).