Dimensions you electricity tariff expected to 50s

Aminur Rahman Rasel
bdnews24.com correspondent

Dhaka, June 6 (bdnews24.com) ? power Development Board (PDB) the Bangladesh proposes Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) electricity price mass level to increase 50% per unit (per kilowatt hour).

When BERC demanded that the proposed prices make effective July 1 PDB.

The proposal said that after the proposed price is reached, must also makes the selling price be hiked, otherwise it makes company losses faced be added.

If the proposal is adopted, the Government to increase mass and retail is tariffs electricity for the third time this year.

BERC Member Selim Mahmud told bdnews24.com that the final decision of the electricity price meet prefix after an open and would a mass hearing be held.

State you Bangladesh oil, gas and mineral Corporation (Petrobangla) on 24 may sent a proposal to the country energy watchdog, to increase BERC, gas prices, except at the level of domestic consumers.

The proposed budget increase masses electricity price by 50% to 6.03 per unit of TK 4.02. TK

"If the new electricity tariff does not come, the Government will have to subsidies amounting to nearly TK 120 billion for the energy sector in the next financial year." If the proposal is adopted, the amount will be 35 billion TK, "the proposal said.

PDB of Chairman A S M Alamgir said that she makes the increase of tariffs for lack of government subsidies in terms of rising fuel costs for proposed for power generation.

"The production per unit costs about TK 5.50 and it goes up to TK 6.87 next year," he added.

Currently is 30 percent of the total flow of fuels such as diesel and furnace oil, produced, while the rest of gas, coal and water generates.

The Government has more mass and makes the sword of Damocles over the head of the end customer retail prices for leaving five times during his time in Office since January 2009.

Bulk and retail makes prices 0.28 and 0,30 per unit or from Mar 1 were migrated from TK.

PDB buys makes from rent and IPP power plants, electricity generation company of Bangladesh (EGCB) Ltd and Ashuganj power station Company Ltd (APSCL).

It sells the power to its mass consumer of ? Dhaka power distribution company Ltd (DPDC), Dhaka electric supply company Ltd (DESCO), rural electrification Board (REB), and the retail consumer ? in its own sales regions at pricing through the BERC.

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Source: bdnews24.com

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