Featured in Meet your makers – 03-2015

Role model for energy generation

Bangladesh: With distributed generation disrupting traditional energy supply models as the world seeks to keep climate change below the critical two degrees Celsius benchmark, analysts are predicting 2015 could be a tipping point for the switch from fossil fuels to renewables. The role model for the energy mix of tomorrow could be found in a surprising quarter.

In a period when analysts worldwide are predicting the demise of traditional energy utility models as the disruptive forces of distributed generation tear up the conventional approach of huge, central generation assets, Bangladesh is illustrating just how the new energy mix could take shape. As the energy industry digests the bold announcement by Germany’s biggest …

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