Bdbusinessdaily.com – Bangladesh’s parliament heard a sweeping outline of the country’s clean-power ambitions on 8 September, when State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Aninda Islam Amit laid out a roadmap that would shift at least one-fifth of national electricity generation onto renewable sources within the next decade. The announcement, delivered in response to a parliamentary notice on urgent public importance tabled by reserved-seat MP Helen Jerin Khan, signals a decisive pivot away from fossil-fuel dependence at a moment when projected demand is set to climb sharply.

Amit cautioned that if the present trajectory of economic expansion and industrialisation holds, total electricity demand could swell to between 24,000 and 25,000 megawatts by 2030. Meeting that growth with imported fuels alone would deepen trade deficits and expose the economy to volatile global energy prices. The minister framed the renewable push as a hedge against that vulnerability, arguing that domestically sourced…