Dhaka, Sept. 28 -- The government is gradually stepping up its efforts to increase power generation from renewable energy sources which so far have a minimal contribution to the national grid.

'We are hopeful about meeting 10 per cent of our national power demand from renewable energy sources by 2021,' said power, energy and mineral resources state minister Nasrul Hamid.

Recently, a consortium of foreign companies bid for the MW grid-tied PV array project in Rangunia, Chattogram. The prequalified consortium was named the lowest tariff bidder ($0.0749/kWh) for the project implementation of 88 MWe(dc) and 55 MWe (ac) grid-tied solar power project.

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