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.

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

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

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.

"The high dependence on imported fossil fuels has significantly impacted our energy system."

Government mustn’t keep depending on fossil fuel power plants

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

With the investments, CIP and COP, the global leaders in renewable energy, proposed to develop a commercial, utility-scale offshore wind project off the coast of the Bay of Bengal, COP said in a press release yesterday.

The government will continue to provide incentives to 12 sectors as an alternative to direct cash support on export receipts with a view to helping exporters tackle potential challenges in the post-LDC era, a top official said yesterday.

The government must phase out inefficient power plants, rethink energy policy

Nature wants to be treated right and climate change impacts will become even harsher if positive changes are not incorporated in the current practices.

It is time to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels altogether.