Plan finalised to promote cross-border power trade

South Asian energy regulators in their two-day meeting that concluded in the city on Monday finalised an action plan to promote cross-border electricity trade and agreed to remove the regulatory barriers in this regard, reports UNB.
"We'd a very successful meeting, and all the regulators finalised a plan of action to address regulatory issues to enhance cross-border electricity trade," said chairman of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) AR Khan.
The BEC chairman was briefing on the proceedings of their conference at a city hotel.
The first-ever 'Council of Saarc Energy Regulators' meeting was hosted by the BERC. The Saarc Secretariat extended its full support by sending its director Mohammad Ibrahim Ghafoori to the conference.
Participants from all the eight Saarc nations-Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka-discussed different issues, especially a decision of the last Saarc meeting in Katmandu to enhance the cross-border electricity trade.