South Asia Cranking Up Dirty Power Plants With Gas Too Pricey
- Bangladesh fuel oil-fired generation rises 25% y/y this month
- India has phased out the plants but is heavily reliant on coal
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South Asia’s emerging economies are cranking up older power plants that burn highly-pollutive fuel oil as rising liquefied natural gas prices put cleaner energy sources out of their reach.
Bangladesh is generating 5,000 megawatts of electricity from fuel oil-fired power stations this month, about 25% more than a year earlier, said Muhammed Aziz Khan, the chairman of Summit Power International Ltd., which owns utilities in the country. More than a third of the 40 LNG cargoes the nation has tendered over the past year were canceled due to elevated prices, he said.
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South Asia Cranking Up Dirty Power Plants With Gas Too Pricey