renewable energy

The draft Renewable Energy Policy 2025 needs revision

The long-awaited draft of the new Renewable Energy Policy (REP) 2025 was published in February, inviting suggestions and advice for refinement.

Adopt renewable energy immediately for a better future: experts

The Policy Exchange Bangladesh organises policy dialogue on Bangladesh’s future

Energy transition can address global energy inequality

2024 is the warmest year on record, surpassing the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C threshold.

Funding decarbonisation in RMG sector requires smart policies

The challenges are multifaceted, from a heavy reliance on fossil fuels to inefficiencies within factory operations.

Set a concrete target first to achieve growth in renewable energy: a study suggests

Shah Md Ahsan Habib, a professor at the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management, conducted the study

NBR offers 10-year tax benefit for investments in renewables

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday granted a 10-year tax benefit for investments to establish renewable energy-based power facilities with the objective to facilitate generation of clean energy.

China wants to make solar panels in Bangladesh

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says while meeting with Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus in New York

Govt has plan to generate power from hydrogen, ammonia: PM

The government has taken a plan to generate electricity from hydrogen and ammonia alongside the production of solar and wind power in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today told the parliament

ICDRET 2024 / In conversation with UIU’s Prof. Dr M. Rezwan Khan

Campus engaged in a one-on-one interview with Prof. Dr M. Rezwan, delving into discussions encompassing the conference and the renewable energy sector in general.

February 17, 2024
February 17, 2024

Why is renewable energy still neglected?

Government mustn’t keep depending on fossil fuel power plants

January 27, 2024
January 27, 2024

Clean energy goal far away

In a fresh push, Bangladesh entered its renewable energy era in 2017 with the launch of a 3MW solar power plant in Jamalpur’s Sharishabari. Ever since, the country has added only 459MW of renewable energy to the national grid.

January 11, 2024
January 11, 2024

World added 50% more renewable energy but more needed: IEA

According to IEA, renewable energy capacity worldwide increased by 50% year-on-year, but challenges remain

December 8, 2023
December 8, 2023

Corruption is dimming solar power, too

Bribe-taking officials, local leaders in CHT must be brought to book

November 11, 2023
November 11, 2023

Who will save the planet? Certainly not its killers.

Issues centring ecological protection are inherently political, but in this dying earth, these are repeatedly depoliticised.

November 5, 2023
November 5, 2023

Sustainable finance can catalyse Bangladesh’s renewable energy sector

Conventional finance alone will not help our nation to achieve its full renewable energy potential.

October 7, 2023
October 7, 2023

The many holes in Bangladesh’s energy master plan

The share of renewable energy is projected at merely 11 and 16 percent in 2041 and 2050.

September 28, 2023
September 28, 2023

Switching to renewables is easier than we think

Bangladesh’s progress towards switching to renewable energy has remained slow and uncertain.

August 10, 2023
August 10, 2023

Pursuing a career in renewable energy

With the state of the climate crisis, renewable energy will be very important going forward.

July 13, 2023
July 13, 2023

Exploring alternative energy sources: The future of renewable power

El Nino, La Nina, wildfire, floods, heatwaves – all these terms have been plastered on every news source, both digital and print for the past few years. It seems that the detrimental effects of global climate change have dawned upon us, it is not a phenomenon that “may happen” in the distant future.