Why a Huge Coal Power Plant in Bangladesh Keeps Running Out of Coal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : It's also exploring offshore wind, and hydropower from Nepal.
59% : Whether it's from coal or another fuel, he said, Bangladesh needs affordable, reliable electricity to grow its industries.
53% : Mr. Hamid's government canceled the construction of 12 coal-burning power plants in recent years, and it is aiming to get 40 percent of its electricity from what it calls "clean energy" (including gas, which is its largest share of electricity now) by 2040.
51% : As prices drop for renewable energy like wind and solar, it will be harder to keep running coal plants, including new ones whose developers have yet to earn back their investment.
51% : No one could have anticipated the many challenges that would befall the project, he said in an interview, including the rising price of coal on the global market, or the foreign currency crunch facing his country.
50% : Despite his bullishness, Bangladesh, like many other countries in Asia, is softening on coal.
49% : That happened because the value of the Bangladeshi taka shrank, while commodity prices, including coal, rose sharply.
49% : No sooner had Maitree resumed operations in mid-May, after managing to secure foreign currency to pay its coal suppliers, than the Payra plant shut down, run by another state-owned company, also temporarily, for a lack of coal.
44% : Coal is to be ferried in covered barges to prevent coal dust from scattering.
41% : Maitree shut down temporarily because of a shortage of foreign currency to import coal from Indonesia.
40% : Other coal plants elsewhere are at risk of sitting idle in coming years because coal could soon lose its appeal as the cheapest source of electricity.
38% : The reason: It didn't have coal to burn.
35% : Somini Sengupta traveled to Rampal, Bangladesh, to understand the lack of coal at a controversial plant there.

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