Cooking Energy Sector in Bangladesh

In this paper, analysis of current cooking energy sector in Bangladesh has been done based on data collected up to year 2018. It is found that domestic consumption of Natural Gas (NG) is increasing gradually. Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) import is also increasing. Biogas plat installed in Bangladesh are mostly based on wet fermentation basis. From 2008 to 2018 total 84,370 biogas plants have been installed in Bangladesh. The import and marketing of kerosene oil is done by Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation alone. There is gradual down trend of use of kerosene during last five years. With gradual wide coverage of grid connected electricity throughout the country, the use of electricity for cooking by Induction and Infra-red is increasing exponentially.