Why has India determined to revisit its power commerce relations with Bangladesh? 

Cross-border commerce of electrical energy is nothing new. It has been occurring for a while now by means of bilateral agreements, memorandum of understandings or energy commerce agreements between the 2 nations. However the current developments in Bangladesh have as soon as once more generated the controversy on the coverage aspect and the component of threat concerned for the gamers concerned, this and extra within the newest episode of Energonomics.

At present, all gamers have maintained that they proceed to provide energy to Bangladesh. Adani provides from its 1600 MW Extremely supercritical energy plant in Goda, Jharkhand by means of a devoted transmission hall. The plant, which was totally commissioned in July 2023 and customers imported coal meets important a part of the northern Bangladeshi’s energy demand. It’s a dilemma for the Adani, because the mission shouldn’t be linked to the Indian community in addition to, it can’t be concurrently linked to 2 networks. This raises the query of why the Indian authorities felt it was essential to implement this variation right now.

On this episode of the Energonomics podcast, Richa Mishra speaks to former energy secretary Alok Kumar, and that is what he needed to say.