energy
Nepal should stop using imported energy and have its own source of energy. When Nepal has its own clean form of energy, the government or the developers should not hesitate to promote its use. It’s not only the nation’s economy that will be helped, but also the world environment that will be protected. Nepal should find ways to reduce the import of petroleum products and to promote...
Rural electrification in Nepal is supported mostly by bilateral donors and banks as a top down supply driven activity with emphasis on generation and transmission, but not focusing on supplying electricity to the maximum number of rural people. In the past, rural electrification was awarded as political favours, leading to inefficiency. Further, it could not further the efficient development...
It has become fashionable to blame ‘cancellation’ of the Arun-III hydroelectric project by the World Bank in 1995 in reference to Nepal’s current electricity crisis, inferring that had it been implemented consumers in Nepal would not be facing the current load shedding problem. Now is the time for a dispassionate and detached analysis of the two scenarios, with and without...
Laos is a mountainous country with very favorable conditions of hydropower development. Rainfall is considered high. It has 26,000 MW of theoretical potential. The Laos Govt. has a strategy to use hydropower to eradicate poverty. It has continuously made numbers of agreements with the neighbouring country Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia for increased power export. The companies developing and...
China developed small hydropower (SHP) with its own resources instead of importing advanced technology from other countries. SHP has been instrumental in rural electrification. In 1997, SHP accounted for 28.6% of whole exploitable hydro energy in China. The peculiarities of SHP of China are:
1. Decentralised approach for SHP development with county as basic unit,
2. Special...
This paper proposes a new model to develop small hydropower on the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, by developing one small hydro project in a district under the auspices of local institutions such as the District Development Committee (DDC), Village Development Committee (VDC), municipality, etc., in partnership with an entrepreneur or the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce...
Meet Mr. Odd Hoftun, a Norwegian who came to Nepal over 40 years ago and has made himself invaluable to Nepal’s hydroelectricity development. So much so that after living here in Nepal for nearly 40 years Mr. Odd Hoftun was awarded Honorary Citizenship, in recognition of his sterling efforts. The following article will introduce you to the man and his thoughts about hydroelectricity...
This article examines the causal relationship between the per capita electricity consumption and the per capita real GDP (natural logarithm) during the period 1980-2006 in Nepal using co-integration and vector error correction model. According to the findings, there is a unidirectional causality from per capita real GDP to per capita electricity consumption. Results show that per capita...
The proposed 195 metre high concrete faced rockfil dam (one of the highest of its kind) in West Seti Hydroelectric Project in Nepal will impound 1,500 million cubic meters of water. High CFRD dams were only recently constructed since 1980s. Nepal's Ministry of Energy must constitute a panel of experts of high standing in the field of dam/river engineering to seek their advice on the West Seti...
Despite repeated controversy over implementing high dams in the Himalayan region, the Government of India has completed the first stage of Tehri Dam hydroelectric project with power generating capacity of 1,000 MW. Being the third dam of its kind after Bhakra and Pong in India, Tehri Dam has faced several social, legal and engineering challenges. Most of them may be lessons for the whole...
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