Nepal is rapidly transitioning from a nation of chronic energy deficit into a nation of energy surplus. After suffering years of power cuts, Nepal is today on the brink of having excess power to sell–which is estimated to be 364 megawatts during the upcoming monsoon season when the c...
Kathmandu; Access to irrigation technology underpins easy and reliable water access. However, land ownership is a prerequisite to access water sources and finance to secure irrigation technologies. Yet, exploitative and unequal gender and caste relations determine access to and benefit from producti...
Background
Nepal's total hydropower potential is 83,000 MW out of which 42,000 MW is considered economically viable. Nepal’s present installed hydropower capacity is about 2,000 MW.
Despite having a huge potential in the area, the country largely depends on fossil fuels. The country&...
Winning Gold in the Olympics
At the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the Prime Minister of Nepal made a solemn promise to the world and his country:
“Nepal aims to win a gold medal in the Olympics 100 meters race by 2045.”
We will achieve this, the Prime Minister said. “By 2...
Kathmandu; Nepal and India share almost 6 decades of bilateral transaction of electricity although records of such transaction are available since 1970 AD only. There are no proper records for about a decade prior to 1970 AD. Despite the abundance of potential for hydro power in the country, the tra...
Kathmandu; Generation and use of electricity heralded in Nepal during the time of Rana Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher after the 500 kW Farping hydroelectric power plant was constructed and commissioned in 1911 AD. Although, this first use of electricity was limited to palaces of ruling Ranas,...
The global climate change resulting into the drastic average temperature increment year by year is one of the biggest problems which the earth and the human being will very seriously face in the coming decades, if we all do not collectively work against these changes, because we all are responsible...
Kathmandu: The new electricity tariff has been effective in Nepal since June last year. The new rate was announced by Nepal Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) by making some changes to the tariff rate proposed by Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) in February, 2020. In a desperate attempt to en...
Until 2016, Nepal suffered from chronic power shortages. At that time, just 65% of the country’s population had access to electricity. Assessing the situation, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) estimated that the country has the potential for 2.1 GW of installed PV capacity. Al...
In a phone call to the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 26 March, US President Joe Biden said that “democratic countries should have an infrastructure plan to rival China’s Belt and Road initiative”. This statement has been the focus of intense scrutiny in Central Asia,...