- Bangladesh is set to spend $50m on a renewed solar drive.
- The country plans to install 80,000 SHS in the Chittagong district.
Bangladesh’s Army is set to deploy 80,000 solar home systems and 5,000 community arrays in the districts of Chittagong. The government recently doubled its scale of deployment of solar services in the region. The solar panels will be supplied for free as part of the government’s electrification target. The army-owned Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Ltd will install the solar systems in the mountainous districts of Khagrachari, Rangamati, and Bandarban.
This project will cost $50 million and follows an earlier $9 million project in the area where the government provided 10,890 home systems, 2,814 community installations, and 5,890 solar-powered cell phone chargers to about 13,708 people. Bangladesh has one of the largest small scale solar capacities globally, with over 6 million solar-home systems that provide a cumulative generation capacity of around 262,753 kWp.