The government is now eyeing a target of generating 10% of its power from renewable resources by 2020. Bangladesh is currently generating around 560 MW of electricity from renewables, which is just 2.95% of total power generation. According to the Renewable Energy Policy 2008, the government was supposed to achieve 5% power generation from renewable sources by 2015, and the figure was supposed to double by 2020. Presently, a total of 559.80MW of power is generated from renewable energy, of which a whopping 325.82MW, or 52.8%, comes from solar power. ‘A tall order’According to Sreda, renewable energy makes up merely 2.95% of the entire energy sector in Bangladesh; which includes the off-grid share (286.72MW) of renewable energy.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 11, 2019 18:11 UTC