Bangladesh: Policy Guidelines for Small Power Plant in Private Sector

This instrument lays out the Government of Bangladesh policy in allowing private sector investors toestablish Small Power Plants (SPP) on a fast track basis for generation of electricity. The SPPs will be developed on a Build-Own-Operate basis.

For more information about this sector, please visit Public–Private Partnerships in Energy and Power.

Ref: Small Power Plant Policy

Bangladesh - Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Development Project (English)

 

This PPP case demonstrates how OBA enabled a government enterprise in charge of sustainable energy investments to form PPPs for rural electrification of low-income households. Solar panel and other sustainable energy technology dealers became PPP operators for installation and long-term maintenance of the equipment while the government focused on quality assurance, convening partnership with GPOBA and other donors as well as coordination of electrical grid planning, making sure that the PPP operators do not work in the place where the grid is expected soon.

Bangladesh Solar Home Systems Grant Agreement

This PPP case demonstrates how OBA enabled a government enterprise in charge of sustainable energy investments to form PPPs for rural electrification of low-income households. Solar panel and other sustainable energy technology dealers became PPP operators for installation and long-term maintenance of the equipment while the government focused on quality assurance, convening partnership with GPOBA and other donors as well as coordination of electrical grid planning, making sure that the PPP operators do not work in the place where the grid is expected soon.

 

Output-Based Aid in Bangladesh: Solar Home Systems for Rural Households

This PPP case demonstrates how OBA enabled a government enterprise in charge of sustainable energy investments to form PPPs for rural electrification of low-income households. Solar panel and other sustainable energy technology dealers became PPP operators for installation and long-term maintenance of the equipment while the government focused on quality assurance, convening partnership with GPOBA and other donors as well as coordination of electrical grid planning, making sure that the PPP operators do not work in the place where the grid is expected soon.

Lessons Learned: Bangladesh Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Development – SHS Project

This PPP case demonstrates how OBA enabled a government enterprise in charge of sustainable energy investments to form PPPs for rural electrification of low-income households. Solar panel and other sustainable energy technology dealers became PPP operators for installation and long-term maintenance of the equipment while the government focused on quality assurance, convening partnership with GPOBA and other donors as well as coordination of electrical grid planning, making sure that the PPP operators do not work in the place where the grid is expected soon.

 

Hemodialysis Centers, Dhaka and Chittagong, Bangladesh

The Bangladesh PPP Office requested IFC’s PPP transaction advisory team to help structure a PPP transaction for the construction, operation, and maintenance of dialysis facilities in select hospitals in the country’s biggest cities, namely the National Institute of Kidney Diseases and Urology (NIKDU) in Dhaka and Chittagong Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) in Chittagong.

Bangladesh Turns to Public-Private Partnerships to Fix Infrastructure

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is turning to public-private partnerships in an attempt to improve the country’s infrastructure. Hasina recently approved a law meant to streamline the legal status of PPPs and foreign financing of projects such as the expansion of energy utilities and public transportation. Officials have been working on the law for a few years, and Parliament is expected to implement it.