Bangladesh Faces Acute Electricity Outages in Peak Season

Entire Bangladesh including its capital Dhaka will experience nagging electricity outages as the country’s Power Development Board (PDB) is seemed unable to meet the demand of power during the upcoming peak summer season, officials said on Thursday.

They said in Bangladesh during the peak summer season, usually from mid-March to mid-October, power demand goes up to its highest level because of hot weather as well as a huge need for irrigation by farmers.

Electricity shortage during summer season would range between 1, 300 megawatt (MW) and 1,500 MW even if the PDB could maintain 3, 700-4,000 MW generation against the demand for 5,500 MW, a power ministry official told Xinhua on Thursday.
CRI