power

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...

An energy windfall for Nepal?

Last month saw the historic signing of the Nepal-India energy Joint Steering Committee agreement to build the new Butwal-Gorakhpur 400KV crossborder transmission...

Can Nepal be the powerhouse of Asia?

Yes, by creating an environment for investment in renewable energy to meet domestic and regional demand

Anil Chitrakar

The climate threat multiplier

Most of the recent talk within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process and elsewhere has focused on cutting greenhouse...

Finding the nexus between water, food and energy

‘Nexus’ has become a word with a negative connotation in Nepal, used in conjunction with collusion or complicity: ‘government-business nexus’, or ‘nexus...

Kunda Dixit

Starting Nepal’s green school movement

Surkhet has a new, community focused eco-friendly school that could be a model for others

Mind the Gap

Whatever the political ambitions of the Maoist leaders, their justification for taking up arms was the inequality historically embedded in Nepali society....

More than half of Nepal’s electricity imported from India

Naya Patrika, 14 JanuaryNepal imported 653MW electricity from India on Friday, the biggest amount so far since the country ended powercuts three...

Decarbonise now

The conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC could not have been more blunt: human-induced...

Federalism's birth pangs or death rattle?

May 2017 was a milestone in Nepal’s transition from a unitary system to a federal state, but a year since locally elected representatives...