Date: 06/04/2011

Prepared by: Prepared for:

MD. Shahriar Al-Sehab MD. Mahmudur Rahman

ID.: 09322131 Lecturer of B.S.T.E

Program: B.S.T.E. CityUniversity

Batch: 13th
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Discussion About
01 Acknowledgement 01

02 The Beginning 02

03 Topic 02

04 A Word from Ministry of Power, Energy & Mineral 03

Resources

05 03
History of Electricity Generation

06 Current Production 04

07 Our Achievement Till Now 05

08 Up Coming Situation 06

09 Power System Development Plan up to 2020 08

10 Power Sector Structure 09

11 Power Plants of Bangladesh 10

12 Electricity Suppliers to The Consumer 11

13 What we have to do still 11

14 Some Special News 14

15 Last Word 14

16 References 15

17 Last Word 16
 Acknowledgement
Man has to learn in his every breath. Anything he learn it doesn’t come for nothing.
Learning is the only way which can change a man completely without any help. Now a
days it is more easy to learn anything. It is now very systematic which guided by the
teacher as a guide.

As I am a student, I am a part of the system. I am a part of the system. I am learners &

learning from the system by the help of the guide of the system.

In this process we are now learning and come to know about our country & I can edit this
type of thing.

For this I am very grateful to my honorable teacher(guide) MD. Mahmudur Rahman.

F.Islam

06.04.’11
 The Beginning
The almighty Allah make a huge world, earth is a very small but beautiful part of it. For
this Allah select it as the home of human being. All the thing & system of the nature is
carrying on by their own but for that they need energy as like we do.

So the “Energy” is not a simple word to describe.

Our world is depending on this word. If you don’t

realize it yet just close your eyes for a minute &

think the world Without energy ………………………………………… ……………………………………….

……………………………………………………………………………….

YES. It is almost rejected. Transportation, computers, satellites even you will also be
stopped without energy. Electricity is the most common form of energy & our today’s
topic is on it.

Topic
Our motherland is a Small & developing country. As it is well known that every
developing country has a lot of problem, we have some too. Some of them are small
(pollution, Careless treatment system etc.), some of them are large too (corruption,
population etc.).

But the problem which is related with electricity is

a large problem too (because it is a form of energy

which importance is described in the part called

“The Beginning”.)

We will give a glance on this problem today. Our

today’s topic is

“Current Situation & Crisis of Electricity in Bangladesh”.

 A Word from Ministry of Power, Energy & Mineral
Resources
The Government is giving its best effort to reach the goal of providing electricity service
to all the people by the year 2020. Along with the reform program, Government has taken
a number of time bound development plan. By the year 2020, installed capacity has been
planned to increase to 17,765 MW.

[Reference: http://www.powerdivision.gov.bd/index.php?page_id=222]

[Date of access: 1st April 1, 2011. Evening]

But if we want to understand the actual situation of this we have to think and know it
elaborately.

Here we are with that now.

History of Electricity Generation

Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh is an ancient city. There is a public saying that
Nawab of Dhaka installed a small generator in his residence "Ahsan Monjil" and started
generating power at 5pm on 7th of December 1901, which is considered as the
introduction of electricity in the then Dhaka city. Later, in and around 1930, M/S.
DEVCO, a subsidiary of M/S. Octavians Steel Company, developed electricity distribution
system at 400V level under complete private ownership and brought that for public use.
Most probably in the year 1933 a power generating station named "Dhanmondi Power
House" was established with two 1500 KW generators each and from there the electricity
distribution system was started to sale to the public on commercial basis.

After partition of the Indian sub-continent in the year 1947, power generation,
transmision and distribution authority in the then East Pakistan region were confined
within some private companies. The electricity supply in the then 17 districts were limited
to the township areas only for a limited time ((i.e.; for use during night time
me only) except
Dhaka city area. At that time other than some private companies, power was used to be
generated by some isolated industries like tea, sugar, textiles and railway workshops. In
aggregate, the generation capacity of this region was about 21 M
MWW at that time.

To cope up with the growing power demand of this region, the then Govt. of Pakistan
created Electricity Directorate in 1948 to plan and improve power supply. In 1957 the
Govt. took over the private owned companies in Dhaka and placed them u
under
nder the
Electricity Directorate for power generation and distribution.

In 1959, East Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (EPWAPDA) was
established to look after generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity
throughout the province
ince of the then East Pakistan. After the independence of Bangladesh
in 1972, Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) was created to look after the same
function. Dhaka Electric Supply, headed by a Chief Engineer under BPDB used to control
the electricityy distribution and sales in Greater Dhaka District area up to September 1991.

Current Production

How much Electricity Bangladesh produces per day? How much is demand per day and
how much shortage?

The answers are: 2nd

Qtr
14%
Electricity Demand per day: 5,5
5,550 MW
Electricity
lectricity Generation per day: 4
4,748 MW 1st
Qtr
Shortage per day: 802 MW 86%

1st quarter :Generation

2nd quarter: Shortage

Whole circle: Demand

According to the govt. ……………………….

Presently total generation capacity is 5376 MW. Of this capacity 3331 MW is from public
sector and 2045 MW is from the private sector, which is 62% and 38% respectively of the
total generation capacity.

Generation Capacity
Public Sector
(MW)
S/N
1 BPDB 2470
2 APSCL 606
3 EGCB 255
Subtotal 3331 (62%)
Private Sector
1 IPPs 1271
2 SIPPs (BPDB) 99
3 SIPPs (REB) 226
4 15 YR. Rental 168
5 3 YR. Rental 281
Subtotal 2045 (38%)
Total 5376

Considering 10 - 15 % Maintenance and Forced Outage, Available Generation Capacity is

in the range of 4500 – 4800 MW without fuel constraint.
 Our Achievement Till Now

We have succeed to improve our condition on producing electricity. Which information I

got, I am just pasting that here as a proof of the work done, this has been taken from a
govt. site.
 Up Coming Situation

We have a lot of natural resources in our country. By using those thing properly we can
get rid of our problems and can product some extra electricity. This can give us a good
number of foreign currencies. Our governments trying to get some extra electricity by
using our own resources but there are some problem in it, as lacking in technology & also
some foreign power are trying to reduce our production because they want to make
Bangladesh a market place for their country. Whatever our govt. has a production plan
which is given bellow:

According to this graph first time in early 2012 demand & production will be same.
 Power System Development Plan up to 2020

Sl. Item Year New

No. 2004 2007 2012 2020 Addition

1 Installed Capacity, MW 4,710 6,441 9,666 17,765 14,525

2 Peak Demand, MW 3,622 5,368 7,887 14,600 10,978

3 Net Generation, MKWh 20,302 26,651 39,157 76,545 56,243

4 Transmission Line, Km 3,919 4,898 7,180 8,396 4,477

5 Capacity of Grid S/S,MVA 3,700 5,950 9,642 11,575 17,920 19,075 15,375
(a) 230/132 kV 7,084 27,367 20,283
(b) 132/33 kV

6 Distribution Line, Km 2,26,232 2,66,375 3,45,530 4,77,558 2,51,326

7 Nos. of Consumers, Lac 79.6 90.36 127.55 207.67 128.07

8 Nos. of Village Electrified 44,546 52,071 69,571 84,000 39,454

9 Per Capita Generation, 155 190 260 450 295

kWh

10 Access to Electricity 35% 47% 65% 100% 65%

11 Investment Requirement, 3.0 (upto 4.5 (1207- 7.0 (2012-

(10 US$) 2007) 2012) 2020)

[Reference: http://www.powerdivision.gov.bd/index.php?page_id=222]

[Date of access: April 2, 201102 at 4.30am]

 Power Sector Structure

Power Division is responsible for formulating policy relating to power and supervise,
control and monitor the developmental activities in the power sector of the country.

To implement it’s mandate the Power Division is supported by a number of organizations,

related with generation, transmission and distribution. The organizational linkage is as
follows:

Power Plants of Bangladesh

 Electricity Suppliers to The Consumer

There are 5 companies, who are serving us. They are

1. BPDB - Bangladesh Power Development Board

2. REB - Rural Electrification Board

3. PGCB - Power Grid Company of Bangladesh

4. DESCO - Dhaka Electric Supply Company

5. DPDC - Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited

What we have to do still

Our govt. and the other organization are doing some great job but still there is a lot of
problem as like as

Load shedding

A huge system lose

Bad maintenance

Postponing time to start
New power plant

Shortage of fuel

And many others……

 Some Special News

# Russia has agreed to build energy-starved Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant, the
government said Friday.

Bangladesh's Ministry of Science said officials from the two countries signed an
agreement in Dhaka late Thursday for the $1.5 billion plant.
Russia will supply two reactors capable of generating a total of 2,000 megawatts of
electricity for the plant, which is to be built by 2018, the ministry said. It will also supply
fuel for the plant and take back the spent fuel, it said.
Russia also will train workers to run the plant, to be built in Rooppur, 75 miles (120
kilometers) north of Dhaka.
Bangladesh's decades-old gas-fired power plants are unable to generate enough electricity
for the country's 150 million people, with a daily shortfall of about 2,000 megawatts.
Businesses complain that the shortages interfere with production.

# Many people doing their best for recovering the electricity problem, A man from
Bangladesh invented a fan which can produce some electricity.

By using that we can reduce the problem

 References

1. Annual report of BPDB.

2. Annual report of REB.
3. Website of Ministry of Power, Energy & Mineral Resources.
4. Google.

Last Word

As I told in the very fast page of this, that I am a learner, so as a learner I have to learn
about myself fast properly.

And without learning about my country I can’t get a good result of lessons I have learned.
For this I give a little try to learn something about my country through this. For this I am
thanking again my teacher to give me a chance to do such a thing.

Thank you, sir.