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,...
New Delhi: The Uttarakhand dam disaster is a reminder of the fragility of humanity’s relationship with nature. Turning our back on hydropower may seem like an easy answer, but it would be the wrong response.
Like other Indians, I watched in horror the footage of the rece...
Acute energy shortages has been one of South Asia’s major challenges. And given the distribution of natural resources, regional electricity trade has long been touted as the obvious solution. This has been a hot topic at regional forums in South Asia including the South Asian Association for R...
The theme for World Water Day this year is “valuing water”. How do we begin to value water for what it is truly worth to us?
The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region – a mountainous area extending across Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar &nda...
LONDON: In the 14th Five-Year Plan, approved by the National People's Congress this month, China has outlined energy and climate policies for the next decade that are an extension of current strategy rather than a radical departure.
The Five-Year Plan (FYP-14) recommits the government in very...
Kathmandu; The public interest in means of electric transportation is gradually increasing in Nepal. Electric Car/Jeep/Van has the greatest number of registrations in every successive year. There is sharp increase in registration of E-Rickshaw since its introduction in 2015. Till Date, there are abo...
A week ago, news broke that Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), our monopoly state-owned electric utility, had lost its bid to sell electricity in India under a competitive tender.
For decades Nepali planners and development partners have been pushing the idea that Nepal’s for...
Experts wonder why a bill riddled with errors has been tabled in the upper house of parliament
Ramesh Bhusal
Kathmandu; The government of Nepal has a majority of nearly two-thirds in parliament, rare in the country’s 30-year-old multi-party democracy. It is also supposedly commu...
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