Dhaka, June 17 -- The lone buyer of electricity from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) is still unaware of the tariff it will have to pay for purchasing power from the country's first nuclear power facility.

"I don't have any information about how much the tariff of the RNPP will be," Chairman of the state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), Md Rezaul Karim, told The Financial Express (FE) on Tuesday.

The BPDB will be the sole purchaser of electricity generated by the Rooppur plant and will subsequently sell the power to different state-owned distribution companies.

Although the RNPP tariff has yet to be fixed and the overall costs remain undisclosed, authorities have started test operations of the plant after completin...