Finance Minister On Power Sector In Budget Speech EB ReportFinance Minister AMA Muhit in his budget speech said that, the country’s electricity generation capacity has raised while load-shedding was lessened. Country’s dependency on quick rental power plants will also start to decrease after 2018, he added. The finance minister also said that, according to the government’s long-term master plan, the construction process of coal-based power plants of Rampal, Matarbari, Payra and some other private-sector power plants will continue. Besides, the government has taken steps to install 4 power plants at Maheshkhali with the economic assistance from Malaysia, South-Korea, Singapore, he added. He also said that, an atomic power plant is also to be installed in Rooppur.

Source: Energy Bangla June 01, 2017 18:00 UTC