TY - JOUR
T1 - Key factors of solar energy progress in Bangladesh until 2017
AU - Marzia, Khanam
AU - Hasan, Muhammad Faisal
AU - Miyazaki, Takahiko
AU - Saha, Bidyut Baran
AU - Koyama, Shigeru
N1 - Funding Information:
One of the main driving factors of the solar energy progress is the influence of the foreign funding agencies. SHS installation has been driven by technical and financial support from various development partners like Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank, Islamic Development Bank, German Development Cooperation (GIZ), Global Environment Facility, International Development Association and German Government owned Development Bank (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau), Department for International Development of the United Kingdom, Global Environment Facility, Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (a multi-donor trust fund), Japan International Cooperation Agency, SNV, United States Agency for International Development and so on 26).
Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Green Asia Program in Kyushu University and Japanese Government for providing research funding.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/6
Y1 - 2018/6
N2 - Renewable energy (RE) is the potential solution to the current world’s problems pertaining to the energy crisis and environmental concerns. Like other countries Bangladesh, which is currently starving for energy, has given more importance to RE especially solar energy to mitigate the energy-related problems. According to RE policy of Bangladesh, the targeted RE share was 5% to be achieved by 2015 (500 MW). At the beginning of 2018, the country was able to install ~506 MW from RE sources (3.10%), in which significant portion comes from solar energy. The factors that contributed mainly to achieve the target are government policies and initiatives, international influence, solar panel price reduction, private sector participation, public awareness. In this study, the influences of these factors have been discussed. Besides, the technologies implemented for the fulfillment of RE share target has been analyzed.
AB - Renewable energy (RE) is the potential solution to the current world’s problems pertaining to the energy crisis and environmental concerns. Like other countries Bangladesh, which is currently starving for energy, has given more importance to RE especially solar energy to mitigate the energy-related problems. According to RE policy of Bangladesh, the targeted RE share was 5% to be achieved by 2015 (500 MW). At the beginning of 2018, the country was able to install ~506 MW from RE sources (3.10%), in which significant portion comes from solar energy. The factors that contributed mainly to achieve the target are government policies and initiatives, international influence, solar panel price reduction, private sector participation, public awareness. In this study, the influences of these factors have been discussed. Besides, the technologies implemented for the fulfillment of RE share target has been analyzed.
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U2 - 10.5109/1936220
DO - 10.5109/1936220
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054141803
SN - 2189-0420
VL - 5
SP - 78
EP - 85
JO - Evergreen
JF - Evergreen
IS - 2
ER -
