Electricity generation in Bangladesh has dropped to less than 25% of its capacity due to reduced winter demand. While this eases summer supply shortages, the state will incur high capacity charges for unused plants. On January 12, peak-hour daytime generation was 6,665MW, only 24.17% of the total 27,566MW capacity. Evening peak generation was 10,043MW (36.43% capacity). Compared to a year ago, daytime generation was higher at 8,914MW, and evening peak at 10,286MW. Despite increased capacity over the past year, the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) faces “skyrocketing capacity payments” for idle plants. Gas-fired plants contributed the most electricity, followed by coal, oil, solar, and hydro/wind plants. The low power production impacts natural gas demand, which Bangladesh struggles to meet due to declining domestic supply and reliance on costly LNG imports. On January 13, total natural gas production was 2,694mmcfd, including 755mmcfd of regasified LNG, with local fields producing 1,939mmcfd.
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