Staff Reporter :
The government has initiated to revise and upgrade the Power Sector Master Plan (PSMP)-2010 as PSMP-2016 in line with containing projections for 2041 with the support of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
As per the`Vision 41`, will be power generation, around 60,000 megawatt by 2041, sources said.
At present, the country has PSMP-2010 prepared in 2009 with JICA help. Referring to the proposed PSMP’s projections 2041, Prime Minister’s Advisor Dr. Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury said, there is a discussion to generate 35 percent power using coal, 35 percent by gas and the rest 30 percent through renewable energy, nuclear power and other sources.
Dr. Tawfiq-e-Elahi was talking to the reporters at the sidelines of a seminar on PSMP- 2016 at Bidyut Bhaban in the city on Saturday.
But if gas is not available, dependence on coal will increase, Elahi said, adding that everything is still on the discussion table.
JICA organised the seminar in order to get the stakeholders’ views about the
proposed PSMP-2016, which was attended also by State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Power and Energy Tajul Islam, BERC Chairman MR Khan, Power Secretary Monwar Islam and Energy Secretary Nazim Uddin Chowdhury.
Tawfiq Ehahi said the Prime Minister Sheikh Hanisa has given an outline on Vision 41 and the power and energy ministry has been working in line with that vision.
State Minister Nasrul Hamid said that the country’s future growth would depend on a master plan.
“So the power system master plan is integrated with the growth of the other sectors including the industrial sector,” he said.
He said that the master plan might be reviewed every two years to keep up with the changed scenario of industrial growth and its pattern.
“Today’s garment sector-oriented industrial growth might shift and in that case the plan may be changed. A master plan cannot be static, it must be dynamic.”
Power Secretary Monwar Islam said that the power and energy sector should have an integrated master plan. “It is because without energy sector’s growth, power sector cannot grow alone,” he said urging JICA to take it into their consideration.
The government has initiated to revise and upgrade the Power Sector Master Plan (PSMP)-2010 as PSMP-2016 in line with containing projections for 2041 with the support of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
As per the`Vision 41`, will be power generation, around 60,000 megawatt by 2041, sources said.
At present, the country has PSMP-2010 prepared in 2009 with JICA help. Referring to the proposed PSMP’s projections 2041, Prime Minister’s Advisor Dr. Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury said, there is a discussion to generate 35 percent power using coal, 35 percent by gas and the rest 30 percent through renewable energy, nuclear power and other sources.
Dr. Tawfiq-e-Elahi was talking to the reporters at the sidelines of a seminar on PSMP- 2016 at Bidyut Bhaban in the city on Saturday.
But if gas is not available, dependence on coal will increase, Elahi said, adding that everything is still on the discussion table.
JICA organised the seminar in order to get the stakeholders’ views about the
proposed PSMP-2016, which was attended also by State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Power and Energy Tajul Islam, BERC Chairman MR Khan, Power Secretary Monwar Islam and Energy Secretary Nazim Uddin Chowdhury.
Tawfiq Ehahi said the Prime Minister Sheikh Hanisa has given an outline on Vision 41 and the power and energy ministry has been working in line with that vision.
State Minister Nasrul Hamid said that the country’s future growth would depend on a master plan.
“So the power system master plan is integrated with the growth of the other sectors including the industrial sector,” he said.
He said that the master plan might be reviewed every two years to keep up with the changed scenario of industrial growth and its pattern.
“Today’s garment sector-oriented industrial growth might shift and in that case the plan may be changed. A master plan cannot be static, it must be dynamic.”
Power Secretary Monwar Islam said that the power and energy sector should have an integrated master plan. “It is because without energy sector’s growth, power sector cannot grow alone,” he said urging JICA to take it into their consideration.
