Compile data on power sector in coordination with BBS: Tawfiq Elahi

Prime minister’s energy affairs advisor Tawfiq Elahi Chowdhury has advised the power division officials to compile their data in coordination with Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) as it would help the government prepare a proper planning, reports news agency UNB.

“It'll be helpful to design proper planning and evolve appropriate policy if the power division takes necessary information from ‘Big Data’ of BBS through a coordination,” he said.

Tawfiq E Chowdhury was addressing as chief guest at a webinar titled “Big Data and Power Management” on Tuesday.

Organised by Bangladesh Energy and Power Research Council (BEPRC) with its chairman Subir Kishore Chowdhury in the chair, the virtual seminar was also addressed by state minister for power, energy and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid, power secretary Sultan Ahmed, and power cell director general Mohammad Hossain.

Moinul Zaber of Computer Science and Engineering Department of Dhaka University presented the keynote.

Nasrul Hamid said the Big Data can help determine the pattern of power consumption to facilitate proper management and smart prepaid card in billing. He said currently 97 per cent people have access to electricity.

“So, it would be easy to take proper decision about the consumers on the basis of the Big Data analysis,” he said.