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11 power plants mostly sat idle last fiscal

At least 15 percent of the country’s 71 independent power producers were sitting idle for 80 percent of the time last fiscal year, raising questions about their need.

Capacity payments have brought nothing but misery

Bangladesh government must rethink its energy policy

PDB to launch hotlines for its clients next year

Bangladesh Power Development Board will open a call centre for its 36 lakh power consumers next year.

Another govt car recovered from PDB CBA leader

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) seizes a government Pajero Jeep from a class-III employee of Power Development Board (PDB,) who has been using the car illegally for the last 10 years.

PDB suffers loss of Tk 7135.03cr in 2016-17

Among the 45 state-owned enterprises (SOEs), Power Development Board incurs the highest loss of Tk 7135.03 crore in the outgoing fiscal 2016-17 year while the total loss of the SOEs is Tk 8630 crore.

Power outages back again

The nightmare called load-shedding is back. With a mild heat wave sweeping the country, people, mainly in rural areas, are suffering due to frequent power cuts.

Power distribution entities’ due bills Tk 47.5b now

Despite repeated directives by Power Division, there is hardly any progress in realising the unpaid bills from different power distribution entities from their customers, particularly those in the public sector.

People across Bangladesh suffer for load shedding

People of the country have been witnessing severe power cuts for the last couple of days because of a drop in oil-based power generation resulting from a shortage of fuel supply.

Spl power plant to check outage

The Power Development Board (PDB) is floating a tender to set up a gas-fired power plant in Shahjibazaar that would remain standby to pump in electricity whenever there is a supply drop in the national grid.

October 15, 2015
October 15, 2015

Tareque killed ex-PDB official Khijir Khan: Cops

Tariqul Islam Tareque, the alleged Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant held yesterday is the killer of ex-Power Development Board (PDB) chief Khijir Khan, police claims.

October 6, 2015
October 6, 2015

Ex-PDB chairman brutally murdered

A former chairman of the Power Development Board was murdered at his Madhya Badda house in the capital yesterday.

October 5, 2015
October 5, 2015

PDB ex-chairman killed at Madhya Badda house

Former chairman of Power Development Board (PDB) Mohammad Khizir Khan is found dead at his Madhya Badda residence in Dhaka.

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