But the money is being spent in line with the general directives for those schemes, leading to unnecessary installation of solar systems across the country, including Godadari upazila of Rajshahi. “We have been spending 50% of the FFW and TR allocations for solar schemes over the last two years. The country’s total electricity generation capacity is around 15,540MW, while the current demand is around 10,000MW against the production of around 9,000MW. Of them, solar power has the largest stake of 1,739MW. A total of 4,115,250 solar home systems have so far been set up across the country.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 11, 2017 21:33 UTC