Intensify efforts to scale up renewable energy technology: Energy Adviser

Prime Minister's Energy Adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury has urged young scientists to intensify their efforts to scale up renewable energy technology to cope with the local demands, reports UNB.
"You have to lay more emphasis on development of technology to serve the country," he told local engineers and scientists at the 7th International Conference on Development in the Renewable Energy Technology (ICDRET'24) in the city's United International University (UIU) that began on Thursday.
He also urged the organisations and companies working in the renewable energy sector to integrate their efforts with the clean energy initiative.
He said the country has 1.2 million diesel-run irrigation pumps.
If these pumps are converted into solar-run ones, and their additional power is given to the grid, it will save huge amount of foreign currencies in fuel import, he said.
The conference is organised by the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Centre for Energy Research of UIU.
With Prof. Dr. Md. Abul Kashem Mia, Vice-Chancellor of UIU in the chair, the event was address by Prof. Dr. M. Rezwan Khan, Organizing Chair, ICDRET'24 and Executive Director, Institute for Advanced Research (IAR), UIU, Prof. Dr. Hasan Sarwar, Dean, School of Science and Engineering, UIU and Shahriar Ahmed Chowdhury, Organizing Co-Chair, ICDRET'24 and Director, CER.