Bangladesh faces energy blackout after nationwide grid fails

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Bangladesh faces energy blackout after nationwide grid fails

A failure in Bangladesh’s nationwide electrical energy grid brought about a lot of the nation to blackout on Tuesday, officers stated.

Officials of the state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board stated energy transmission failed someplace within the jap a part of the nation. Electricity division spokesman Shamim Hassan stated all energy crops within the capital Dhaka and different main cities had been shut down and energy was reduce.

He stated engineers are looking for out the place and why the fault occurred and it may take hours to revive the system.

Bangladesh’s latest spectacular financial development is threatened by an influence scarcity as the federal government suspended operations of all diesel-fired energy crops to cut back prices for imports as costs soar. Diesel-powered energy crops produce about 6% of Bangladesh’s electrical energy era, so their closure may reduce manufacturing by as much as 1500 MW.

Earlier this month, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association president Farooq Hasan stated the state of affairs is so dire that garment factories are actually with out electrical energy for about 4 to 10 hours a day. Bangladesh is the world’s second largest garment exporter after China, and it earns greater than 80% of its complete international change every year from exporting attire merchandise.

Last month, the Asian Development Bank stated in a report that Bangladesh’s financial development would gradual to six.6% within the present fiscal 12 months from its earlier forecast of seven.1%.

Weak client spending attributable to sluggish export demand, home manufacturing constraints and different components are behind the slowdown.


With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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