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Aminur Rahman Rasel Published at 01:21 AM January 21, 2018
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'Bangladesh adopted, keeping pace with the global trend, the Renewable
Energy Policy in 2008, which suggests that 10% of electricity be sourced from
renewable energy by 2020'

The government has nalized a net-energy metering guideline to

help the country’s household, commercial or industrial consumers
of grid-connected electricity use solar energy for power generation
installing solar panels on their own roofs.

The guideline is also aimed at facilitating them to become

electricity producers meeting their power demand, be it partly or
fully, on their own, and even sell excess electricity to the power
distribution agencies or companies.

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In this regard, Power Cell, under the Power Division, has recently appointed a consultant to draft the guideline
suitable for renewable energy integration to the national grid.

The consultant has already submitted the nalized guideline to the Power Cell.

Now, the Power Division will hold a meeting for accepting the guideline where o cials and stakeholders of the
power sector will be invited, sources said.

The guideline is meant to establish a mechanism for integrating distributed renewable energy into the grid,
Power Cell Director General Mohammad Hossain told the Dhaka Tribune.

Net-metering can potentially drive widespread implementation of distributed generation by incentivizing end-
users to adopt localized power generation through renewable energy technologies such as solar, wind and
biomass, he said.

“The solar photovoltaic (PV) power system will be installed on the consumer’s premises or any empty space on
the roof of buildings, on parking lot, other sheds, boundary wall, premises of any building/ factory that uses
sunlight for direct conversion into electricity through the PV technology,” he said.

According to the draft guideline, Bangladesh enjoys a good amount of sunshine and the use of solar energy
continues to grow with the cost of solar technology declining. Incentivising grid-connected customers are of
utmost importance to promote renewable energy-based distributed generation.

Net metering is one of the tools to popularize the renewable energy-based electricity generation in the country,
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Under the move, prosumers (who consume and produce electricity) will be allowed to connect their renewable
energy systems to the distribution grid.

It allows the export of energy generated

from distributed renewable energy
sources in exchange of credits in the
form of energy or money, the draft said.

Most of the recent capacity addition is

from standalone solar systems,
generally implied as solar home
systems (SHSs). There are 4.5 million
cumulative installations of SHSs in
predominantly off-grid areas of
Bangladesh.

“Bangladesh aims to achieve universal

access to electricity and join the ranks
of middle-income countries by 2021. In
order to achieve the growth target, the
power generation capacity needs to be Most Read
signi cantly increased to meet the
growing demand,” Shahriar Ahmed
Chowdhury, the consultant and also the
director of Centre for Energy Research
of United International University.

“But power generation now largely relies

on fossil fuels, the stock and supply of
which is limited in Bangladesh.

He said: “Bangladesh adopted, keeping

pace with the global trend, the
Renewable Energy Policy in 2008, which
suggests that 10 % of electricity be
sourced from renewable energy by
2020.”

In view of the challenge of primary fuel

sourcing and supply, the government
has recently developed the power
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“Alongside the conventional energy sources, renewable energy will play a signi cant role in ful lling the future
demand of electricity as well as conforming environmental obligations,” the expert added.
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He emphasized on preparing a guideline for net metering system, establishing a nancial mechanism for
renewable energy incorporation into the national grid, and popularizing renewable energy-based rooftop or grid- Who is the Florida school
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reduce carbon emission, as it will also help them get incentive on export.

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Once allowed, the landlord will have to use 70% produce from solar panels, while the rest electricity will come
from the national grid.

What the guideline says

 Net metering guideline is an approach to encourage distributed renewable energy development by allowing
utility customers to generate their own electricity from solar or any other renewable sources and use the
electricity produced to offset the amount of energy they draw from the utility grid (sometimes called the
distribution grid) and any access generation can feed into the grid.
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Encouraging self-consumption of the electricity produced from renewable energy sources, among the
consumer to reduce dependency on the grid power is a goal of the government.

The guideline is also designed to help reduce electricity bills by lowering the use of power from the national 'I stopped reading newspapers after
grid, secure payment made for the electricity fed into the grid in the event of surplus generation and to allow the Voyangkor Sundor'
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Contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emission by promoting power generation from renewables
while lessening the country’s dependence on expensive imported fossil fuels are also behind the government
move.

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