Prospects Coal as an Alternative Environmental Friendly Fuel to Mitigate Energy Crisis in Bangladesh Economy

Nadiul Islam and Sakib B. Amin

The substratum of any nation’s economy is energy. It constitutes crucial infrastructural inputs into the economic development process. Extensive research been conducted in the past, and all of them stated that energy is vital for the developing process. Bangladesh has been blessed with substantial amount of natural gas that helped the nation to make significant economic process for its vast population. However, the natural gas reserves are depleting, which will become a threat to the energy sector to keep up with the increasing demand. Various political, social and economic reasons haveforced us to realize the importance of finding an alternative energy resource such as coal and the purpose of this research is to find out whether coal-fired power plants, are feasible or not in context to the Bangladesh energy sector. To prove the feasibility of this research, various analysis of numerous research papers is scanned throughout the last 2 decades, to get a proper concept of the whole topic so that it can be applied for Bangladesh. Information regarding the cost and environmental effect from different part of the world has been gathered for this project. After studying various research papers, I was able to come to conclude that the whole research is, feasible and sustainable if conducted properly. The feasibility of this research paper will lead us to become less mono-fuel dependent and allow us toapproach towards the road of economic solvency.