News Update
Asia's significance and contribution to global issues of energy, climate change and sustainable development has been steadily growing. The update highlights some of the major news stories from various Asian countries offering an overview of the issues, prospects and challenges in the region.
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| Bangladesh sees surge in small-scale solar power |
| Alertnet, 11 May 2011 |
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Power-hungry Bangladesh has doubled the number of homes with solar-generated electricity systems to 800,000 over the last year. Demand for the systems is growing as the country curbs new connections to its overburdened power grid and as costs for the solar panels come down, according to a range of non-profit groups now providing them across the country. The government has committed to producing at least 5 percent of the country’s power through renewable sources by 2015, and 10 per cent by 2020. As part of that effort, Solarium Power Limited, a private firm, has been given permission to install an 18-MW solar power plant expected to cost 2 billion taka ($27 million). The plant is expected to cut Bangladesh’s carbon emissions by 100,545 tonnes a year. Home-based solar panels are also playing a role. Groups like Grameen Shakti that are helping install the systems hope to bring them to a total of 35 million users in Bangladesh by 2015.
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