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Geopolitical sensitivities of its giant neighbours block much-needed energy projects
Household electricity consumption with the onset of winter, dedicated supply to industries and increase in electric vehicles is fuelling demand…
Photo: BIKRAM RAI/ NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVESNepal could lose Rs142 billion a year in wasted surplus energy if the Millennium Challenge Corporation…
Nepal Rastra Bank’s report last month was badly timed — it was a bad idea to sound a warning that Nepal is going belly up just as the country…
Reservoir pond of the Pharping hydropower project 12 km south of Kathmandu Valley. Photo: ASMIT RAJBHANDARIIt was 6:30pm on 22 May 1911, and the…
The Managing Director of the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) Kulman Ghising, who is largely credited with ending Nepal’s ruinous daily power…
Photos: KUNDA DIXITThe increased frequency of climate-induced weather extremes and public opinion pressure are forcing even major fossil fuel…
Cow dung holds the key to Nepal’s green economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-JBl5KtybQ&t=32sAshim Pandey, 30, used to be fascinated with motorcycles while growing up in Kathmandu. He…
Nepal has the fifth highest hydropower potential in the world. Besides electricity, which can be used for peak energy supply, hydropower…
Photo: EDCWLast month saw the historic signing of the Nepal-India energy Joint Steering Committee agreement to build the new Butwal-Gorakhpur…
At next week’s Power Summit, let us put finally the horse before the cart
Yes, by creating an environment for investment in renewable energy to meet domestic and regional demand
Lhotse glacier, Chukung village to the far left. Photo: ALTON C BYERSMost of the recent talk within the UN Framework Convention on Climate…
Using electric rice cookers instead of LPG could save the country a whole lot of money
SILO-ED THINKING: The Melamchi Project is given by authors as an example of non-nexus thinking. By planning it only as a drinking water project,…
Surkhet has a new, community focused eco-friendly school that could be a model for others
Capacity and WillpowerThere are immense opportunities waiting for investment to uplift the living standard of 30 million honest and hardworking…
On Thursday, a worker puts up the registration desk as part of preparations for the Investment Summit at Hotel Soaltee, Kathmandu. Photos:…
https://youtu.be/NR6mf_rrRb0Learning from the success of overseas Chinese and Indians investing in their homeland, the Nepal government…
Photo: BIKRAM RAINepal introduced the Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act (FITTA) in 1992, but it lags behind South Asian economies…
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAILet us just say, for the sake of argument, that Nepal has now untangled its politics, formed a Constitution, the…
Naya Patrika, 14 JanuaryNepal imported 653MW electricity from India on Friday, the biggest amount so far since the country ended powercuts three…
