• NEA : 10038 MWh
  • Subsidiary Company : 12875 MWh
  • Private Sector : 17311 MWh
  • Import : 662 MWh
  • Tripping : 55 MWh
  • Energy Demand : 40942 MWh
  • NEA : 00 MW
  • Subsidiary Company : 00 MW
  • Private Sector : 00 MW
  • Import : 00 MW
  • Tripping : 00 MW
  • Peak Demand : 1885 MW
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The blooming power

  • 22 May, 2022

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...

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Solar Irrigation Pumps, Women and Smallholders in Eastern Tarai

  • 18 April, 2022

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...

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Energy Connectivity and Sustainable Development of Hydropower in Nepal

  • 15 April, 2022

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&...

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How Nepal won a gold medal in the Olympics 100 meters race and installed 100s of MW of solar plants 

  • 31 March, 2022

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...

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Nepal Experience of Power Trade Agreement: Failures led to Success

  • 30 March, 2022

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...

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Cross border Electricity Trade for Social Transformation in Nepal

  • 30 January, 2022

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,...

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Wind turbine development focusing raising countries; based country: Nepal Optimus 60

  • 24 January, 2022

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...

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Increased Generation, Stalled Consumption : A New Challenge for Nepal’s Energy Management

  • 27 August, 2021

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...

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Turning Nepal’s solar game around

  • 25 June, 2021

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...

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A green alternative to the BRI

  • 27 May, 2021

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,...

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