Lighting the Way : Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges in Bangladesh's Power Sector

The report surveys the challenges facing Bangladesh's power sector today and makes recommendations for consideration by national policy makers. Its starting point is the Government's goal of universal access to electricity by 2021, when B...

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Main Author:	Pargal, Sheoli
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	POWER GENERATION ELECTRICITY ENERGY EFFICIENCY RENEWABLE ENERGY GAS NATURAL GAS CLIMATE CHANGE COAL
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/936461540318296226/Lighting-the-Way-Achievements-Opportunities-and-Challenges-in-Bangladeshs-Power-Sector http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30896

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spelling	okr-10986-308962021-09-17T05:10:59Z Lighting the Way : Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges in Bangladesh's Power Sector Pargal, Sheoli POWER GENERATION ELECTRICITY ENERGY EFFICIENCY RENEWABLE ENERGY GAS NATURAL GAS CLIMATE CHANGE COAL The report surveys the challenges facing Bangladesh's power sector today and makes recommendations for consideration by national policy makers. Its starting point is the Government's goal of universal access to electricity by 2021, when Bangladesh completes 50 years of independence. Bangladesh can justly be proud of its progress in providing power to its people over the past decade. Generation capacity has steadily grown from 5.5 GW in 2009 to more than 13 GW in 2017—an increase of 140 percent. Starting from levels of access to electricity below 50 percent, today access is around 80 percent, with a globally recognized off-grid rural Solar Home System (SHS) program contributing almost 14 percent of that total. Sector performance is better than that of larger countries in the South Asia Region on key dimensions—distribution and transmission losses (together around 14 percent) and collection efficiency (above 90 percent). Bangladesh was an early mover in initiating private power generation in the late 1990s. The independent power producer (IPP) contracts awarded at that time through a transparent competitive process brought it what remains even today some of the lowest cost power in South Asia. Power imports from India commenced in 2013 and are set to grow—they are a critical element of the Government's strategy to supplement domestic generation with other sources of supply. The country has also demonstrated impressive mobilization and institutional capacity in selected agencies, which it can leverage in its quest to rapidly achieve middle-income status. 2018-11-27T20:45:19Z 2018-11-27T20:45:19Z 2017-12 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/936461540318296226/Lighting-the-Way-Achievements-Opportunities-and-Challenges-in-Bangladeshs-Power-Sector http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30896 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: ESMAP Paper South Asia Bangladesh
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description	The report surveys the challenges facing Bangladesh's power sector today and makes recommendations for consideration by national policy makers. Its starting point is the Government's goal of universal access to electricity by 2021, when Bangladesh completes 50 years of independence. Bangladesh can justly be proud of its progress in providing power to its people over the past decade. Generation capacity has steadily grown from 5.5 GW in 2009 to more than 13 GW in 2017—an increase of 140 percent. Starting from levels of access to electricity below 50 percent, today access is around 80 percent, with a globally recognized off-grid rural Solar Home System (SHS) program contributing almost 14 percent of that total. Sector performance is better than that of larger countries in the South Asia Region on key dimensions—distribution and transmission losses (together around 14 percent) and collection efficiency (above 90 percent). Bangladesh was an early mover in initiating private power generation in the late 1990s. The independent power producer (IPP) contracts awarded at that time through a transparent competitive process brought it what remains even today some of the lowest cost power in South Asia. Power imports from India commenced in 2013 and are set to grow—they are a critical element of the Government's strategy to supplement domestic generation with other sources of supply. The country has also demonstrated impressive mobilization and institutional capacity in selected agencies, which it can leverage in its quest to rapidly achieve middle-income status.
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title	Lighting the Way : Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges in Bangladesh's Power Sector
title_short	Lighting the Way : Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges in Bangladesh's Power Sector
title_full	Lighting the Way : Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges in Bangladesh's Power Sector
title_fullStr	Lighting the Way : Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges in Bangladesh's Power Sector
title_full_unstemmed	Lighting the Way : Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges in Bangladesh's Power Sector
title_sort	lighting the way : achievements, opportunities, and challenges in bangladesh's power sector
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
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url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/936461540318296226/Lighting-the-Way-Achievements-Opportunities-and-Challenges-in-Bangladeshs-Power-Sector http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30896
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Lighting the Way : Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges in Bangladesh's Power Sector

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