DEBASISH DAS1* and MD. MIZANUR RAHMAN1
1=Lecturer, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Information, Technology & Sciences (UITS), Chittagong, Bangladesh. *Corresponding author’s Email: debu_05eee@yahoo.com.
ABSTRACT
Bangladesh has small reserves of oil and coal, but very large natural gas resources. Commercial energy consumption is around 66 percent natural gas, with the remainder mostly oil (plus limited amounts of hydropower and coal). About 20 percent of the population (25 percent in urban areas and 10 percent in rural areas) has access to electricity and per capita commercial energy consumption is among the lowest in the world. Noncommercial energy sources, such as wood, animal wastes and crop residues are estimated to account for over half of the country’s energy consumption. Electricity is a unique commodity which cannot be stored but to be instantaneously transmitted to the places where there is shortage or demand for power. Through jointly invested power transmission lines there could be short-term opportunistic exchanges, long-term supply arrangement, bilateral trade, multilateral arrangement and integrated regional power pools. Bhutan already has electricity grid interconnection with India so that interconnection between Bangladesh and Bhutan via India power grids is a significant aspect for energy security. The study was conducted at Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Information Technology & Sciences (UITS), Chittagong, Bangladesh during May to November 2011.
Keywords: Interconnected power grid, Electricity, Energy sector and Energy security.