SANEM Energy Outlook: Volume 2, Issue 4 | April 2026
The April 2026 issue focuses on the theme “Bangladesh’s Renewable Energy Supply Chain: Gaps, Barriers, and the Path Forward.” The cover page presents concise highlights of four featured articles. The first article, “Powering Bangladesh’s Future: Why the Renewable Energy Supply Chain Must Be Built at Home,” emphasizes that Bangladesh must develop a comprehensive domestic renewable energy supply chain—encompassing manufacturing, finance, standards, logistics, and skilled labor—to ensure energy security, reduce import dependence, and achieve sustainable industrial transformation. The second article, “How Import Duties and Taxes are Shaping Bangladesh’s Solar Energy Future,” highlights that complex, inconsistent, and high import duties and tax structures are significantly increasing the cost of solar equipment, undermining the competitiveness of local firms and slowing the country’s transition to solar energy. The third article, “Bangladesh’s Renewable Energy Transition: A Missing Link in Quality Assurance,” underscores that weak quality assurance systems—particularly the absence of modern testing and certification infrastructure—are hindering the renewable energy transition by causing inefficiencies, delays, and the risk of substandard components entering the market. The final article, “War, Energy, and Bangladesh’s Missing Solar Workforce,” points out that the country’s solar expansion and energy security ambitions are constrained by a shortage of skilled workers and an underdeveloped vocational training system, making the transition unsustainable without urgent investment in human capital.