Tag: Hydropower
PM Prachanda Calls for Increased Private Investment to Achieve Middle-Income Status
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has said that the improving investment climate in Nepal is the government's top priority.
Addressing a programme on 12...
Nepal awaits India’s decision on hydropower trade, faces delay in approvals
Despite initialling a 25-year-long inter-governmental framework agreement on selling Nepal’s electricity to the southern neighbour, the agreement is yet to be signed.
With India delaying...
The ten countries that produce the world’s cleanest electricity and Nepal...
Hydropower remains the dominant source of electricity across the world’s cleanest power grids, although wind, solar, geothermal and nuclear also play a role for...
Hydropower projects paid more then 3 billion royalty
Hydropower plants that have been completed and are in operation have paid more than 3 billion rupees in royalties to the government. In the...
Govt to produce additional 900MW hydropower in FY 2080/081: Energy Minister...
The government has targeted to generate additional 900MW of hydropower this year.
Minister for Energy, Water Resource and Irrigation Shakti Bahadur Basnet has said that...
The requirement for climate risk resilience in Nepal’s multiple hydropower projects
Kathmandu: Kul Bahadur Tamang, chairperson of Ward-9 of Panchkhapan Municipality in eastern Sankhuwasabha district, has never seen the havoc created by floods as massive as...
Climate change adds risk to investments in hydropower
At least 30 projects in east suffered damage worth Rs8.5 billion due to floods and landslides in season’s first rains.
Sumuna Shrestha, deputy mayor of...
Nepal’s curse of the white gold
Rasuwa villagers say they are yet to see promised economic bonanza from hydropower projects on their river
Ramesh Kumar in Rasuwa
Tipper trucks piled with cement...
