Bangladesh's Electricity Supply and Load-Shedding, 2015-2026
Eleven years of hourly grid readings, cross-checked against daily generation reports and mapped to districts and power plants. Explore supply, load-shedding, forecasts, demand growth, production cost, fuel use, and data quality.
August 2026
Last updated: 27 Sept 2026
Right now
The most recent hourly reading from PGCB. Supply plus load-shedding is exactly the published “demand”.
There is 387 MW of load-shedding right now. At this hour over the last 90 readings it has typically been 1,578 MW, most days between 523 and 2,250 MW.
The electricity not supplied so far today (387 MWh) would have run a day's power for about 0.3 million people. (At 560 kWh per person per year.)
Supply and load-shedding, hour by hour
The situation in your area
Type a district name to see which grid zone it belongs to, how much load-shedding that zone is getting, and which power stations and substations are nearby. You can also search by plant or substation name.
Why is there load-shedding?
The NLDC daily report prints a reason beside every power station. These are the stations that generated nothing at all at the evening peak, grouped by the reason given.
Idle capacity, by stated reason
The shortfall, as BPDB itself attributes it
When gas falls, the lights go out
Gas delivered to power stations against demand left unserved, shown as monthly medians. The hot-month comparison holds temperature nearly constant.
Gas supplied
Demand unserved
What BPDB said the day before
BPDB's next-day load-shedding forecast is set against what actually happened. The forecast became more realistic in 2026, but zero forecasts still miss often and by more.
Forecast and outcome, side by side
Both figures describe the evening peak at the substation end.
Is the burden shared evenly?
Zones are not shed equally on the same day. How much of a zone's own demand gets cut, and how much shortfall falls on each resident , worked out from the authorities' own table.
Share of its own demand that was cut
Shortfall per person, at the evening peak
Electricity on the map
The darker the shade, the more load-shedding in that zone. Dots are power stations and grid substations, sized by capacity or load.
A district takes the colour of the grid zone it sits in , no district-level breakdown is published inside a zone. Plant and substation positions come from matching names against OpenStreetMap; some are only accurate to the nearest town.
How now compares with previous years
Load-shedding swings with the season , heavier in summer, lighter in winter. So "versus a year ago" only means something against the same point in the calendar. Each line below is one year, laid over the same dates.
Electricity not supplied, by day of year (7-day average)
How fast demand has grown
Evening-peak demand laid over the same days of earlier years. This is published demand: electricity delivered plus electricity cut.
Evening-peak demand, recent years side by side
Demand on each year's median day
Summer demand: delivered and cut
From 2025 to 2026, published demand rose 7.6%, while delivered electricity rose 2.2%.
What a day of electricity costs to make
Daily generation cost and cost per unit, compared with the same point a year earlier, show both how much prices changed and why.
Cost per unit against the same days of earlier years
Why the unit cost rose
Zone by zone
Demand and load-shedding in each zone at the evening peak, as published in the NLDC daily report.
| Zone | Demand (published) | Load-shedding | Share of all load-shedding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mymensingh | 1,518 | 314 | 67% |
| Dhaka | 6,092 | 84 | 17.9% |
| Sylhet | 755 | 30 | 6.4% |
| Rangpur | 1,066 | 26 | 5.5% |
| Cumilla | 1,379 | 9 | 1.9% |
| Rajshahi | 1,670 | 6 | 1.3% |
| Chattogram | 1,472 | 0 | 0% |
| Khulna | 1,900 | 0 | 0% |
| Barishal | 521 | 0 | 0% |
Load-shedding trend by zone, last 365 days
What the electricity is made from
The fuel split of each day's generation, in gigawatt-hours.
Generation by fuel, average per day
A daily average keeps short and incomplete months comparable.
What each fuel delivers, and what each fuel costs
Oil supplies 9.5% of electricity and takes 27.5% of the bill.
An ordinary day, half hour by half hour
Generation by fuel over the latest 30-day window. The top band is load-shedding: electricity requested but not delivered.
Daily generation by fuel
Fuel cost per unit of electricity
Over time
PGCB's archive holds rows back to 2015, but before 2022 the load-shedding column reads "0" in almost every hour. That period is marked "not reported" rather than drawn as zero.
Average shortfall
How solid are these figures?
This report shows the authorities' own numbers. But it also matters how those numbers are built, and where two official sources fail to agree with each other.
The published "demand" is an arithmetic identity, not a measurement
In PGCB's hourly table, demand equals supply plus load-shedding exactly in 99.4% of rows. BPDB's daily report does the same with energy: demand = generated + not supplied, exact in 100% of days. So "demand" is never measured independently , it is built from the load-shedding figure. The two cannot be used to check each other, and real demand may well be higher.
Two different pages, one set of numbers
BPDB's "area-wise demand" page and the NLDC daily report's evening-peak table agree exactly on 594 of the 600 days compared. It is not a second independent source , it is the same figure printed elsewhere.
How much each year actually holds
PGCB's table has rows going back to 2015, but the demand and supply columns are almost entirely empty, and before 2022 the load-shedding column reads "0" nearly every hour. The table below shows what is really there.
| Year | Rows | Load-shedding above zero | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6,074 | 22 | 0.4% |
| 2016 | 8,753 | 36 | 0.4% |
| 2017 | 8,084 | 5 | 0.1% |
| 2018 | 8,689 | 11 | 0.1% |
| 2019 | 8,671 | 12 | 0.1% |
| 2020 | 8,768 | 6 | 0.1% |
| 2021 | 8,748 | 3 | 0% |
| 2022 | 8,745 | 2,277 | 26% |
| 2023 | 8,737 | 4,965 | 56.8% |
| 2024 | 8,773 | 5,021 | 57.2% |
| 2025 | 8,753 | 3,326 | 38% |
| 2026 | 6,453 | 4,156 | 64.4% |
National installed capacity is about 29,000 MW. Load-shedding figures larger than that are treated as typing errors and set aside , 3 in total.
Sources: PGCB / NLDC hourly demand-supply-loadshed, BPDB daily generation archive (NLDC PDF reports), BPDB area-wise demand, PGCB daily workbook (NLDC reports, digitised), OpenStreetMap (plant & substation locations, district boundaries)