This year, Bangladesh faced an unprecedented hike in fuel prices, which had both immediate and medium-term impacts on various sectors of the economy. CPD closely monitored the price hike likely to stoke the difficult inflationary situation and the implications on poor and middle-income people. Also, CPD emphasised economic and environmental cost estimation of LNG import and realistic alternatives for enhancing efficiency in gas use in power plants, reducing captive power generation, and promoting clean-energy-based power generation. Additionally, CPD emphasised that the national budget should put greater emphasis more on power distribution and transmission than generation.

ACTIVITIES

• Gas-LNG Debate in Energy Supply: Costs and Consequences of LNG Import for the Power Sector
• Energy and Power Sector in the National Budget for FY2023
• Record Fuel Price Hike in Bangladesh: Could It Be Avoided?
• Draft Integrated Power and Energy Master Plan (IEPMP): Can it Achieve Clean Energy Targets?
• খসড়া সমন্বিত জ্বালানি ও বিদ্যুৎ মহাপরিকল্পনা (আইইপিএমপি): পরিচ্ছন্ন জ্বালানি লক্ষ্যমাত্রা অর্জন করতে পারবে কি?

PUBLICATIONS

• Economic and Environmental Cost Estimation of LNG Import
• জ্বালানি তেলের অস্বাভাবিক মূল্যবৃদ্ধি: এখন এড়ানো যেত কি?
• Record Fuel Price Hike in Bangladesh: Could It Be Avoided?