Solar power stations

If the solar generation station is economically feasible, then a whole network could be installed all over the country, especially in the backward-linked rural areas, hilly regions and islands. We could pay partly by selling raw materials or finished products.

The government energy policy appears to be rather myopic, with concentration of natural gas only (where are the new LNG/LPG plants?). Only recently some foreign investors have come forward for coal generated electricity. We should touch the wind turbines and tidal energy technologies with pilot project schemes for feasibility studies in Bangladesh. Why initiative is lacking?

This delta region has vast possibilities for using the daily jawar-bhata (tides) potentialities. Some western countries have considerable experience in sea tide-generated power systems.

But transfer of technology to the LDCs is an invisible wall to the donors and investors. It could be due to lack of interest and proposals from the recipient countries. More technocrats have to be involved at higher policy-making levels (ours is a file-pushing Secretariat!). Electric power is there (potentially), but there is no high-level voltage at the planning end!