Backing from the Asian Development Bank will help a 50 MW project get off the ground – and onto the water – in Chittagong, and a developer has been lined up to install solar on a stretch of the Padma river. Two floating solar farms with a total capacity yet to be built were to be built in Bangladesh . A 100 MW scheme backed by the Asian Development Bank would be built on Kaptai Lake . Details of the second had not been decided although it was expected to be on the Padma river with Dynamic Green Energy as the developer . The Bangladesh government wanted 10 % of its electricity to come from renewable sources by 2021 , and its Energy System Masterplan 2016 said the country could produce more than 3.6 GW of renewable energy , mostly from solar .
Two floating solar farms with a total capacity yet to be built were to be built in Bangladesh . A 100 MW scheme backed by the Asian Development Bank would be built on Kaptai Lake . Details of the second had not been decided although it was expected to be on the Padma river with Dynamic Green Energy as the developer . The Bangladesh government wanted 10 % of its electricity to come from renewable sources by 2021 , and its Energy System Masterplan 2016 said the country could produce more than 3.6 GW of renewable energy , mostly from solar .