What’s the Price of Rooppur Power11 Jun 2025 16:51
The much lauded Rooppur is going to be churning out lecky soon at uneconomical prices..🙄…..
Electricity Bills
When the contract with Rosatom was signed in 2016, the Bangladeshi Minister for Power Energy and Mineral Resources announced that the price of the nuclear energy generated by RNPP would be Tk 5 – Tk 5.30 (between 5 and 5.30 takas per unit of electricity). However, German researchers calculated that this was a substantial underestimation, and that the true price would be over Tk 8 – possibly exceeding the costs of coal-powered electricity. An official of the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) says the cost will really exceed Tk 10 – double the initial estimate.
Professor Shamsul Alam, an energy expert, said in 2023 that “The RNPP’s construction cost is so high that there is no chance of getting electricity at an affordable price”. The truth is that the costs Bangladeshis will ultimately face are shrouded in mystery. In mid-March of this year, the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), which is actually involved in the construction, did not know what the resultant electricity prices would be. The BPDB, which will buy electricity from RNPP, also could shed no light on the matter.
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