Dhaka, March 14 -- Speakers at a webinar today (14 March 2024) echoed the ever-increasing importance of rooftop solar expansion in Bangladesh. The webinar titled Scaling up rooftop solar deployment in Bangladesh was jointly organized by the Energy & Power magazine and the global think tank Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). Editor of the energy & power magazine, Mollah Amzad Hossain moderated the webinar.

In the keynote presentation, IEEFAs Lead Energy Analyst of Bangladesh, Shafiqul Alam provided a brief overview of the rooftop solar sector that currently has 166.88MW capacity under both net-metered and non-net-metered systems. With several rounds of power tariff adjustments in the last 1 and a half years, ro...