adding 8 GW in the first half of the same year. Despite the rapid progress in power generation from wind in recent time, most South Asian countries except India are
at the primitive stages of harnessing the wind energy for power production.
At present, over 85% of the total power in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan is generated from fossil fuel. Most power
plants in Bangladesh and Pakistan are based on natural gas. The increasing consumption of gas by power plants has been far
outstripping any increase in supply and production. This leads to severe gas deficits in power plants, industrial and domestic
uses; which by any measure, is unsustainable. The cost of power generation by wind is in par with the coal based power cost
as shown in Table 1.