Solar without the capital outlay
Two routes to clean power that do not require you to fund the plant yourself: green financing through City Bank PLC, or a Corporate Power Purchase Agreement where you simply buy the electricity.
Two routes
Pick the structure that fits your balance sheet
Most industrial clients stall at the same point: the engineering makes sense, but the capital expenditure competes with machinery, expansion or working capital. Both routes below remove that conflict.
Green financing through City Bank
You own the plant. City Bank funds it under a dedicated green facility, and the savings service the loan.
How it works 02Corporate Power Purchase Agreement
You own nothing. A merchant power plant generates, you buy the electricity at a negotiated rate.
How it works
Green financing partner
An MoU with City Bank PLC, under their USD 50 million green financing facility
Amrark clients get a route into that facility without assembling a lending case from scratch. We prepare the technical documentation the credit committee needs: generation modelling, equipment specification, structural assessment and the savings profile that demonstrates the loan can be serviced from the energy cost reduction alone.
What this changes for you
- The asset is yours. You hold the plant, the generation and the full savings for its 25-year design life.
- The savings carry the repayment. Sized properly, the monthly electricity reduction covers the instalment, so the project is close to cash-neutral from commissioning.
- Bank-ready documentation. Lender review is where rooftop projects usually die. Our engineering and reporting is built for that scrutiny from the outset.
- Green terms, not general corporate terms. The facility is designated for qualifying environmental projects, and is priced accordingly.
Facility terms, tenor and pricing are set by City Bank and assessed per borrower. We prepare and present the case; the credit decision is theirs.
Corporate Power Purchase Agreement
Reliable power without putting a plant on your books
A CPPA is a contract between a large electricity consumer and a Merchant Power Plant. The MPP builds, owns and runs the generation. You agree a tariff and pay for the units you consume, nothing else. No capital outlay, no maintenance obligation, no asset to depreciate.
The structure was formally opened up by the Policy for Enhancement of Private Participation in Renewable Energy-based Power Generation, 2025, widely known as the Merchant Power Policy. For the first time, private renewable generators can sell directly to industrial buyers rather than only to the state utility, and open access to the grid is a recognised right rather than a negotiation.
Who it suits
Heavy industrial load
Textiles, steel and similar continuous-process plants, where demand is large, steady and predictable enough to underwrite a long-term tariff.
Export-oriented manufacturers
Buyers auditing scope 2 emissions want documented clean supply. Power from a green MPP comes with the paperwork, including Renewable Energy Certificates.
Economic zones and large estates
Zones, commercial complexes and multi-tenant developments carrying enough aggregate load to negotiate as a single bulk consumer.
Eligibility follows the consumer thresholds set in the policy, indicatively from 5MW at 11kV and rising at higher transmission voltages. We confirm your position against the current gazette before any structuring work begins.
How it works
Feasibility and negotiation
The MPP and your team settle capacity, tariff and contract term. The agreed tariff is bilateral, not regulated, but must be reported to BERC and to the relevant utility. Where power travels over the national grid, wheeling arrangements are agreed with Power Grid Bangladesh at BERC-approved charges.
Implementation
The plant is built and commissioned. It can be financed by a private investor or by you, depending on how the economics are structured. A dedicated line to your facility avoids the grid entirely; otherwise wheeling charges apply to every unit delivered.
Operation
Power is delivered by dedicated connection or wheeled across the grid, and you are billed on metered consumption. Surplus generation, up to a capped share of capacity, can be sold on to public sector utilities at BERC-approved rates rather than being wasted.
Market context
Why the economics moved in 2026
Grid power keeps getting more expensive
BERC raised tariffs across wholesale, transmission and retail from the June 2026 billing cycle, the first revision it has set since 2020. Retail rose 16.68% on average and wholesale by 19.85%. For an industrial buyer, every increase widens the gap between grid power and self-generation, and lengthens the case for fixing your cost of energy now.
Cheap capital exists, but it is hard to reach
Bangladesh Bank runs several green refinance windows, including the Green Transformation Fund, which let banks lend to qualifying projects at a maximum of 5% to the borrower. Utilisation stays low because most lenders are not set up to appraise rooftop solar. IEEFA found renewable energy took only 7.8% of green lending, with a negligible share reaching net-metered rooftop projects. Access is an execution problem, not a liquidity one, which is exactly what a prepared lending case solves.
Policy is moving toward private capital
The draft National Renewable Energy Development Strategy for 2026-2030 proposes a state-backed payment guarantee, a dedicated clean energy fund, expanded refinancing, and import duties on rooftop and distributed solar equipment cut to as low as 1%. If the duty reduction holds, installed cost per kWp falls and every model on this page improves.
The build rate has to rise sharply
Renewable capacity stood near 1,690MW at the end of 2025 against a 20% share target for 2030. Meeting it means roughly 760MW a year through 2030, and IEEFA puts the annual investment requirement at USD 933 to 980 million against a historical average near USD 238 million. Industrial rooftops are the fastest capacity to build, which is where the incentives will keep pointing.
Sources: Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission tariff order effective June 2026; Bangladesh Bank refinance scheme terms; Power Division draft National Renewable Energy Development Strategy 2026-2030; IEEFA analysis, February 2026.
Find out which structure fits your site
Send us a recent electricity bill and a rough roof area. We will come back with an indicative system size, a financing route and the numbers behind both.