The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has lined up a total of 51 power plants, having total generation capacity of about 3990 MW, for retirement by 2025. According to an official document of the BPDB, the state-owned principal organization in the power sector, the retirement schedule includes 15 plants from the public sector and 36 from the private sector. Read: Merchant Bankers seek Tk 10,000 crore to sustain capital markets The document—Annual Report 2021 of BPDB—reveals that of the 51 power plants, some 12 plants with total capacity of 1154 MW will be put on retirement in 2021-22, 14 power plants having total capacity of 890 MW in 2022-23, 22 power plants of total 1,770 MW capacity in 2023-24, and 3 plants, having 167 MW capacity, are going to be retired in 2024-25 fiscal year.