Finance Minister AMA Muhith directed the state minister for power yesterday to set a target for allocating at least 20% of total power generation to general consumers during peak hours.
“You [state minister] set a target, by which time you should supply 20% of installed capacity, since people have become angry because we have the capacity to produce 10,000MW but we cannot produce 7,000MW,” Muhith told State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid.
Muhith came up with the directive at a meeting at his Secretariat office.
Admitting that electricity generation was yet to reach the installed capacity, Muhith added that the power projects had failed to reach the development target which was expected by the government.
Not more than 70% of the installed power generation capacity was actually being produced, while general power consumers cannot get more than 18% of the total production because of system loss, the minister added.
Currently, Bangladesh produces around 6,800MW of electricity.