China has proposed a visit by a Chinese team to Nepal in February to hold a third round of discussions regarding the development of the Nepal-China Cross Border Transmission Line.
A Joint Technical Group comprising representaलभधकtives of the Nepal Electricity Authority and the State Grid Corporat...}
Bilateral power trade and attracting Bangladeshi investment in Nepal’s two hydropower projects will be the agenda for discussions during the high-level bilateral meeting expected to take place between the two countries in July.
Nepal will host the fourth meeting of the joint working group...}
The government is working to revise the law to allow the private sector to engage in electricity trade, after its earlier attempt to give such permission through an electricity transmission directive and a new set of guidelines failed.
The Electricity Act-1992 does not allow the private...}
India has allowed the Nepal Electricity Authority to sell additional 325MW of electricity in India’s energy exchange market in a major development days after the two countries announced a vision statement regarding power sector cooperation.
The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) sa...}
Nepal until 2017 was power-starved, facing outages up to 18 hours a day. The country now has surplus energy, but it does not have a concrete plan to export power. As a result, between 200MW and 600MW of electricity is being wasted daily during different times.
An estimated 800MW of electrici...}
The Ministry of Energy has ordered the Nepal Electricity Authority to make necessary arrangements for providing electricity free of cost to households that consume less than 20 units a month.
The government move comes in less than a week after Energy Minister Pampha Bhusal told journalists&n...}