Dhaka, Dec. 27 -- The country's power sector is currently going through a terrible paradox. On one hand, ordinary people and industries are crying out for uninterrupted power, on the other hand, the Power Development Board (PDB) is facing huge bills to pay to idle power plants.
Three major gas-based private power plants (IPPs) approved for political reasons are- Summit Meghnaghat-2, Unique and Jera have collected Tk 3,374 crore just from 'capacity charges' without generating any electricity in the past one and a half years.
The greatly varying capacity charges paid to power companies with similar capacities highlight a chronic ill practice by the fallen Awami League regime, sending Bangladesh's economy into a tailspin. The PDB calculated ...