A. M. MAHMUDUL HAQUE1* and H. M. KAMRUZZAMAN
1=A . K. M. Mahmudul Haque, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh, 2=Hussain Muhammad Kamruzzaman, MSc Student, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh.
*Corresponding author’s Email: haque@brur.ac.bd.
ABSTRACT
The study was conducted at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh during the year 2019. Secondary data were used in this study. Electric power is the basis of human life and plays an important role wherever man lives or works and the electricity requirement of the world is increasing at an alarming rate. So, electric power is essential all over the world including Bangladesh. In this study, security of electric power system in south west cyclone prone areas of Bangladesh is studied. In this regard, loss in electric power system after Sidr, projects under annual program of Ministry of Science and Technology, PGCB as well as government’s ongoing projects and annual allocation in south west part of Bangladesh are taken into account. Beside this, government’s risk mitigation model for disaster is also studied. It has been seen that government is allocating a huge amount of money every year and taking some good initiatives to improve the quality of service and increase the access to electric power all over the country. However, there is no bridging among government, scientific community and electric power system companies to overcome the risk of vulnerability of electric power system infrastructure during disaster specially cyclone. For this reason, a model has been proposed in this study to strengthen the security of electricity supply in south west coastal areas of Bangladesh. This model will not only help electric power company but also allow government of Bangladesh to utilize national think tank properly and lessen the foreign dependency in technical support.
Keywords: Resilience, Blue economy, Cyclone, Coastal area and Electric power.