Kathmandu: Officials from Kathmandu and Dhaka have agreed to sign a long-term agreement for the export of 40MW electricity from Nepal to Bangladesh, a Nepal Electricity Authority office bearer said.
Even though the two sides are yet to negotiate the tariff to be charged on the electricity, t...}
Kathmandu: For nearly three decades, the government has been promoting alternative energy other than hydropower to serve the populations that are out of the national electricity grid.
As a result, nearly a million solar home systems were installed, micro and small hydropower projects with combine...}
Kathmandu; Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) says that it has requested the Bihar state government of India to provide an extra 90 megawatts of electricity as the drop in domestic production has led to an energy deficit in the country.
The peak power demand in Nepal stood at 1,683MW on...}
Kathmandu: The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has shelved its plan to set up a substation at Trishuli Bazaar for the Nepal-China Cross-border Transmission Line as it plans to connect the power line with a Ratmate-based substation to be built with the assistance of the Millennium Challenge Co...}
The Investment Board Nepal is set to begin negotiations with the NHPC Limited, an Indian state-owned power company, for the development of the 750MW West Seti Hydropower Project from Sunday, a senior official of the board said.
On May 12, the board had received a formal proposal fr...}
The Nepal Electricity Authority has scrapped its plan to sell 200MW of electricity to India under a long-term power purchase agreement.
Citing legal complications after one of the bidders quoted “unsatisfactory” prices, the state-owned power utility was mulling over abandoning its pla...}
The Nepal Electricity Authority appears to be in a fix over its plan to sell 200MW of electricity to India through a five-month-long power purchase agreement, after one of the Indian companies made two separate bids.
Manikaran Power Limited has quoted INR4.86 (Rs7.77) per unit for 100MW, the high...}
The NHPC Limited, an Indian government hydropower board under the Ministry of Power, has submitted a proposal to develop the West Seti Hydropower Project.
Multiple officials confirmed to the Post that the Investment Board Nepal has received a formal proposal from the NHPC Limited, formerly...}
Nepal’s reliance on India for electricity has continued even as the country has been exploring options to export power to the southern neighbour.
But lately, supply from the south has stopped during the night, leading to disruption of power to industrial firms in certain regions.
Officia...}
Purusottam Ojha, a former commerce secretary, still remembers the scorn from some Indian officials over Nepal’s proposal on a transit arrangement for energy, especially for landlocked countries, about two decades ago.
During the ministerial meeting of the landlocked countries in Almaty, Kaz...}