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Power Grid Company Of Bangladesh
Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) is a Bangladeshi public limited company listed at the Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchange. __TOC__ PGCB at a Glance Corporate Office: PGCB Bhaban, Avenue-3, Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar, Badda, Dhaka-1212. Year of Incorporation: 1996 -31820(941)/96 Status: Public Limited Company (Listed). Business: Transmission of Power. Authorized Capital: Tk. 10,000 Crore. Paid-up Capital: Tk. 712.73 Crore. Turnover (2020-2021): Tk. 2,283.85 Crore. Net Profit before tax (2020-2021): Tk. 427.99 Crore. Manpower as on 30 June, 2021: 2690 persons. Transmission Infrastructure Information Transmission Line : 400kV: 1397 Circuit km, 230kV: 4,022 Circuit km, 132kV: 8190 Circuit km, 187.57 Circuit km (Others). Substation: 400kV: 1 Nos 2x500MW HVDC Back to Back station, 400/230kV: 4 Nos 4,680 MVA, 2 Nos 1170 MVA (Others). 400/132 kV: 3 Nos 1,950 MVA. 230/132kV: 27 Nos. 15,225 MVA, 3 Nos. 7,50 MVA (Others) 230/33KV: 1 Nos. 280 MVA, 3 Nos. 910 MVA(others). 132/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city in the world with a population of 8.9 million residents as of 2011, and a population of over 21.7 million residents in the Greater Dhaka Area. According to a Demographia survey, Dhaka has the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world, and is popularly described as such in the news media. Dhaka is one of the major cities of South Asia and a major global Muslim-majority city. Dhaka ranks 39th in the world and 3rd in South Asia in terms of urban GDP. As part of the Bengal delta, the city is bounded by the Buriganga River, Turag River, Dhaleshwari River and Shitalakshya River. The area of Dhaka has been inhabited since the first millennium. An early modern city developed from the 17th century as a provincial capital and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-European language family. Bangladesh forms the sovereign part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition of India in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electricity Sector In Bangladesh
The utility electricity sector in Bangladesh has one national grid with an installed capacity of 25,700 MW as of June 2022. Bangladesh's energy sector is not up to the mark. However, per capita energy consumption in Bangladesh is considered higher than the production. Electricity was introduced to the country on 7th of December, 1901 under British rule. Electricity is the major source of power for most of the country's economic activities. Bangladesh's total installed electricity generation capacity (including captive power) is 25,700 MW. It was 15,351 megawatts (MW) as of January 2017 and 20,000 megawatts in 2018. The largest energy consumers in Bangladesh are industries and the residential sector, followed by the commercial and agricultural sectors. Bangladesh will need an estimated 34,000 MW of power by 2030 to sustain its economic growth of over 7 percent. Problems in Bangladesh's electric power sector include high system losses, delays in completion of new plants, low ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
