State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said the generation of 9,930MW of electricity from renewable sources is in the pipeline in Bangladesh.
Nasrul informed this while Winnie Estrup Peterson, the outgoing ambassador of Denmark, called on him at his office at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Sunday. During the meeting, they discussed various issues related to mutual interest.
He also informed that Bangladesh is in the process to import electricity to be generated from renewable sources from neighbouring countries.
Thanking the Danish envoy for her country’s interest in Bangladesh, Nasrul said Bangladesh has given special importance to renewable energy.
He said 1,194MW of electricity is generated from renewable sources, but 825.23MW of electricity is coming to the national grid.
Another 1,262MW power generation projects are underway through 30 projects from renewable energy and 8,668MW power generation projects are under process, he added.
Expressing interest in producing 500MW of electricity from offshore wind, the ambassador said Danish companies are very interested in cooperating with Bangladesh to harness the blue economy.
