renewable energy

World added 50% more renewable energy but more needed: IEA

According to IEA, renewable energy capacity worldwide increased by 50% year-on-year, but challenges remain
11 January 2024

Corruption is dimming solar power, too

Bribe-taking officials, local leaders in CHT must be brought to book
8 December 2023

Who will save the planet? Certainly not its killers.

Issues centring ecological protection are inherently political, but in this dying earth, these are repeatedly depoliticised.
11 November 2023

Sustainable finance can catalyse Bangladesh’s renewable energy sector

Conventional finance alone will not help our nation to achieve its full renewable energy potential.
5 November 2023

The many holes in Bangladesh’s energy master plan

The share of renewable energy is projected at merely 11 and 16 percent in 2041 and 2050.
7 October 2023

Switching to renewables is easier than we think

Bangladesh’s progress towards switching to renewable energy has remained slow and uncertain.
28 September 2023

Pursuing a career in renewable energy

With the state of the climate crisis, renewable energy will be very important going forward.
10 August 2023

Exploring alternative energy sources: The future of renewable power

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.
13 July 2023

Denmark proposes $1.3 billion investment to produce wind energy in Bangladesh

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.
12 July 2023

Incentives planned for 12 sectors

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.
8 May 2023

Fuelled by inefficiency?

The government must phase out inefficient power plants, rethink energy policy
30 April 2023

Besides forex reserves, nature needs replenishing too

Nature wants to be treated right and climate change impacts will become even harsher if positive changes are not incorporated in the current practices.
13 April 2023

The economic case for renewable energy

It is time to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels altogether.
6 March 2023

Why carbon emissions could cost Bangladeshi RMG makers

Targets for carbon emissions are closing in fast on some of Bangladesh's largest trading partners. Some have set targets for 2030. Things are moving more quickly than anybody could have imagined on this issue.
7 February 2023

Idcol to get €140.5 million from German bank

The Infrastructure Development Company Limited (Idcol) is all set to get €140.5 million from German Development Bank Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW) -- €41 million for energy efficiency and €99.5 million for renewable energy projects.
5 February 2023

More power, but at what cost?

The latest energy master plan does not align with Bangladesh's clean energy targets
16 January 2023

Exploiting Newton’s law of gravity to store green energy

Energy generated from gravity batteries is sustainable.
5 October 2022

Is Bangladesh turning its back on renewable energy?

Bangladesh’s dependency on coal-based power plants is gradually increasing, when countries around the world are abandoning the technology to make electricity.
27 August 2022

Shamim A Mridha’s Eco-Network wins the Diana Award

Shamim Ahmed Mridha is one such young and motivated individual whose network of environmentally aware people has won him The Diana Award. The award is presented by the Diana Award Org, which according to their website, honours a cohort of “20 outstanding young leaders, visionaries and role models from across the world who have demonstrated their ability to inspire and mobilise new generations to service their communities, as Princess Diana believed they could.”
7 July 2022

UK to lend $450m in five years

British International Investment (BII) has embarked on an ambitious plan of lending $450 million to Bangladesh over the next five years, finding that the country has a stable government and policy support for private sector development.
31 May 2022