“Hopefully, our generated electricity would contribute to the country's socioeconomic development.”The private sector now dominates Bangladesh’s power generation. By the Power Division data, the country's total power generation capacity reached 20,343 MW in the year, of which 11,057 MW came from private sector producers. “Baraka Patenga Power intends to play a big role in the government's target to ensure electricity for all by 2021 by installing more power plants,” Chowdhury said. Besides, the company set up a co-generation secondary power plant with capacity of 3.20 MW, which was brought under operation on April 2015. To ensure good governance, BPPL has already complied with the requirements of the Corporate Governance Code of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission, he said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 02, 2020 16:52 UTC