Issues relating to energy conservation and renewable energy in Bangladesh

Analysis of energy consumption and indicators of energy use in Bangladesh

“…The country has a total area of 1.47 9 10 11 m 2 and average 3.5 kWh/m 2 solar intensity falls on this land over 300 days per annum. Even if one percent of these land is used to harnessed solar energy for power generation at efficiency of 10%, a total of 5.2 9 10 09 kWh units of electricity can be generated annually'' (Sarkar et al 2003). More than 1, 50,000 solar home systems (SHSs) 2 equivalent to 7.5 MW have been installed in the country (IDCOL 2007).…”

Technical appraisal of solar home systems in Bangladesh: A field investigation

“…Installations of very small scale renewable energy systems have, therefore, been encouraged both by the Government and non-government organizations. Further discussions on the progress and other issues pertinent to renewable energy in Bangladesh can be found in [8][9][10][11].…”

Techno-financial analysis and design of on-board intelligent-assisting system for a hybrid solar–DEG-powered boat

“…The maximum solar radiation is available from March to April, and the minimum insolation is experienced between December and January [13,30]. The energy generated in the form of electricity is 105 times lower than that is due to the solar energy reaching Bangladesh-an enormous amount of 5:2 Â 10 6 MWhr/year [16,17]. The Hourly solar irradiation data for the last two decade have been collected from Bangladesh Meteorological Department.…”

“…In Bangladesh, only about 50 % population have access to the national grid and the demand of electrical energy is always higher than the generation [12,13]. Thus, solar energy can be considered as one of the alternate source of energy which could be used to drive solar boats as well [14][15][16][17][18].…”