Tag: #Electricity
Articles tagged with #Electricity
What’s cooking in Nepal besides politics?
Over-reliance on hydroelectricity at the cost of solar power is high-risk and high-cost
Blueprint for Nepal-India electricity trade
A new 25-year bilateral power trade deal raises concerns about India ‘capturing’ Nepal’s rivers
Missing pieces of the hydropower jigsaw
Hydroelectricity supply will soon catch up with demand, and focus is shifting to reservoirs to store energy and regulate water
Nepal’s curse of the white gold
Rasuwa villagers say they are yet to see promised economic bonanza from hydropower projects on their river
The geopolitics of Nepal’s water and electricity
The Kulekhani Dam opened in 1982, and is still the only large reservoir project in Nepal. Photos: NT ARCHIVEA rapidly warming atmosphere is…
All politics is local
When the only ambulance in Diprung Chuichumma could not attend to all the emergencies, Chair Bhupendra Rai himself drove the infected to health…
Nepal backs EVs to boost hydro-electricity uptake
Photo: IVAN RADIC/FLICKRNepalis with battery-operated vehicles can now install a separate household meter to charge their vehicles as part of a…
Happy New Air
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIOn Thursday morning, Nepali Times photographer Amit Machamasi was greeted with a shocking sight when he drove up to…
Nepal electricity demand soars
Household electricity consumption with the onset of winter, dedicated supply to industries and increase in electric vehicles is fuelling demand…
Asian Development Bank Loan received
T he Electricity Grid Modernisation Project that was signed between the Asian Development Bank and the Ministry of Finance in November 2020 has…
The cost of no MCC
Photo: BIKRAM RAI/ NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVESNepal could lose Rs142 billion a year in wasted surplus energy if the Millennium Challenge Corporation…
COPOUT at COP26
The south face of Mt Gauri Shankar (7,134m) on the border between Nepal and China is bare rock, and shows how dramatically the snowline has…
MCC: damned if we do, damned if we don’t
Youth staged a demonstration protesting the US-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in Kathmandu on Tuesday. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIFor…
Nepal needs to plan for plenty and scarcity of water
Photo: KUNDA DIXITClimate change, pollution, and lack of infrastructure restrict water access in Nepal. Madhav Belbase, retired Secretary of the…
The Kosi’s sorrow, and scope
Exploring Nepal’s largest river during a destructive monsoon
Power politics delays MCC in Nepal
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRINepal's prolonged political deadlock has not just affected the country’s response to Covid-19, it has also delayed…
Power politics delays MCC in Nepal
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRINepal's prolonged political deadlock has not just affected the country’s response to Covid-19, it has also delayed…
Nepal’s 1st hydroelectric plant is a museum piece
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…
Power cuts are back in Nepal
A combination of low river flow, high winter power demand and old-fashioned mismanagement have meant that Nepalis are once more suffering from…
Transformer Man
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIAn indication of the kleptocracy we live in is that an honest government official who performs well is regarded as…
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…
Kulman Ghising’s tenure at NEA in doubt
Kulman Ghising, the man widely credited with ending daily 14 hours of power cuts is due to step down next month after four years as head of the…
Stop complaining, start contributing
Whether you see the glass as half empty or half full, it is time to take action and move ahead
Nepal power glut with COVID-19 shutdown
Nepal’s demand for electricity has decreased dramatically since the country went into lockdown on 24 March in response to the COVID-19…