Economic Reporter :
State minister for energy Nasrul Hamid on Thursday said coal was expected to be used to generate 50 percent of electricity by 2022.
“Under the Power System Master Plan, coal would be the primary fuel for power generation,” he told a roundtable titled ‘Mega Project Debate, staged by Energy and Power, a specialized magazine for energy sector, at CIRDAP auditorium in the city.
Hamid added: “We expect coal to be used to generate 50 percent of electricity by 2022.”
He said currently the country has a reserve of 3,500 million metric tonnes of coal and even if 35 percent of the volume could be recovered that would be equivalent to 28 TCF gas.
Hamid alleged that the current campaign against the proposed coal-fired Rampal power plan was aimed to frustrate the government target to ensure energy security with a political motive designed by BNP and its crucial ally Jamaat-e-Islami.
“The people spearheading the (anti-Rampal) campaign in the social media were found to be linked to BNP-Jamaat,” he said.
Most experts who took part in the roundtable said that there was no scientific or technical basis of the campaign being carried out by different groups against the pant.
Energy and Power’s editor Mollah M Amzad Hossain chaired the roundtable where international energy expert Engineer Khandkar Abdus Saleque Sufi presented the keynote paper.
State minister for energy Nasrul Hamid on Thursday said coal was expected to be used to generate 50 percent of electricity by 2022.
“Under the Power System Master Plan, coal would be the primary fuel for power generation,” he told a roundtable titled ‘Mega Project Debate, staged by Energy and Power, a specialized magazine for energy sector, at CIRDAP auditorium in the city.
Hamid added: “We expect coal to be used to generate 50 percent of electricity by 2022.”
He said currently the country has a reserve of 3,500 million metric tonnes of coal and even if 35 percent of the volume could be recovered that would be equivalent to 28 TCF gas.
Hamid alleged that the current campaign against the proposed coal-fired Rampal power plan was aimed to frustrate the government target to ensure energy security with a political motive designed by BNP and its crucial ally Jamaat-e-Islami.
“The people spearheading the (anti-Rampal) campaign in the social media were found to be linked to BNP-Jamaat,” he said.
Most experts who took part in the roundtable said that there was no scientific or technical basis of the campaign being carried out by different groups against the pant.
Energy and Power’s editor Mollah M Amzad Hossain chaired the roundtable where international energy expert Engineer Khandkar Abdus Saleque Sufi presented the keynote paper.
