energy

Nepal’s China-India love-triangle impacts investment

Geopolitical sensitivities of its giant neighbours block much-needed energy projects

Nepal electricity demand soars

Household electricity consumption with the onset of winter, dedicated supply to industries and increase in electric vehicles is fuelling demand for hydropower, reducing...

The cost of no MCC

Nepal could lose Rs142 billion a year in wasted surplus energy if the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) project designed to upgrade the electricity grid...

Urgency about Nepal’s economic emergency

Nepal Rastra Bank’s report last month was badly timed — it was a bad idea to sound a warning that Nepal is...

Nepal’s 1st hydroelectric plant is a museum piece

It was 6:30pm on 22 May 1911, and the sun had just set in Kathmandu when King Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah arrived...

Kulman Ghising to stay on

The Managing Director of the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) Kulman Ghising, who is largely credited with ending Nepal’s ruinous daily power cuts...

Oil-rich Gulf turns to renewable energy

The increased frequency of climate-induced weather extremes and public opinion pressure are forcing even major fossil fuel exporting countries in West Asia...

Kunda Dixit

This is bullshit

Cow dung holds the key to Nepal’s green economy

Kunda Dixit

Designed and made in Nepal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-JBl5KtybQ&t=32sAshim Pandey, 30, used to be fascinated with motorcycles while growing up in Kathmandu. He wondered why Nepal could not make its...

Decentralising (hydro)power

Nepal has the fifth highest hydropower potential in the world. Besides electricity, which can be used for peak energy supply, hydropower reservoirs...