Assessing energy diversification policy and sustainability: Bangladesh standpoints

Abstract

As Bangladesh's economy expands, the country has experienced severe power crises over the decades. With the Government's effective implementation of policies, the country has shown remarkable progress in energy sector recently. Even though various initiatives have been undertaken to improve energy sector, thevision of power sector hasn't yet achieved. To accelerate the progress in energy sector, the country needs to reform the transmission and distribution sector of the country to reduce the distribution losses. The effort should be given to the fuel demand and supply side management, energy efficiency and diversifying program for sustainable development in energy sector. Thus, revisiting the existing reform process in the energy sector is needed to be investigated to meet ever rising energy demand. The paper assesses the major regulatory framework changes commenced by the government in power sector and identifies key issues that led to the passage of the affordable and sustainable energy for all. In addition, fuzzy rule-based GHG emission predicting system is designed in this research which demonstrates how the GHG emission varies with the variables i.e., renewable integration, fossil fuel management, fossil fuel quality and use of modern technology and suggests the effective and efficient GHG emission reduction process from power generating sector. Finally, policy perspective, control and co-ordination issues in energy sector were discussed.