Draft policy sets ambitious target

  • 19/08/2008

  • New Age (Bangladesh)

The power division has drafted a renewable energy policy with an ambitious target of meeting five per cent of total electricity demand by 2015 and 10 per cent by 2020 with renewable energy. At an inter-ministerial meeting, which reviewed the draft on Monday, power secretary M Fouzul Kabir Khan asked officials concerned to specify in the draft the tentative generation of electricity from a certain renewable source. When asked whether the target of generating five per cent of electricity from renewable sources by 2015 was too ambitious, Fouzul told New Age,