NEA starts importing electricity from India With the domestic production insufficient to meet peak local power demand during the winter months, Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has started importing power from India since one week. Business 21 Dec, 2022
NEA constructing transmission network in Madhes Province In order to increase the domestic consumption of electricity produced in the country, the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is going to set up a transmission operation in the districts of Madhesh province that can support consumption of about 4,000 megawatts of power. Business 29 Nov, 2022
Rs 10.38 billion worth of surplus power exported to India The state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has earned a net income of Rs 10.38 billion by trading 1.26 billion units of surplus power within five-and-ahalf months at competitive rate in the Indian energy market Since the electricity trade with India is done in Indian rupees, INR 6.49 billion was brought into Nepal from the sale of electricity, as per NEA. Business 19 Nov, 2022
NICCI seeks to promote bilateral investment, economic cooperation Vice-President of Nepal-India Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NICC) Sunil KC met Salman F Rahman, private industry investment adviser to PM Sheikh Hasina in the rank of cabinet minister and one of the leading entrepreneurs of Bangladesh. Business 01 Nov, 2022
EDITORIAL: Energy export The state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has traded 1.30 billion units of electricity at a competitive rate in the Indian energy market, earning nearly Rs 8 billion since June. NEA had traded surplus energy worth Rs 3.88 billion in the last fiscal. Opinion 13 Oct, 2022
Surplus power export to India surpasses one billion units The state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has traded 1.30 billion units of surplus power at competitive rate in the Indian energy market as of Tuesday. Business 12 Oct, 2022
Rs 2.42 billion worth of surplus power exported to India The state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has traded surplus power worth Rs 2.42 billion in the second month (mid-August to mid-September) of the current fiscal year 2022-23 at competitive rate in the Indian energy market. Business 22 Sep, 2022
Rs 1.84 billion worth of surplus power exported to India The state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has traded surplus power worth Rs 1.84 billion in the first month (mid-July to mid-August) of the current fiscal year 2022-23 at competitive rate in the Indian energy market. Business 22 Aug, 2022
Dahal seeks Indian investment in hydropower sector CPN-Maoist Centre Chairperson and former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said Nepal was eager to welcome more investment from Indian investors and developers in the hydropower sector. Nepal 17 Jul, 2022
37 MW surplus power exported to India Nepal has started trade of surplus power in the Indian energy market at competitive rate. Business 03 Jun, 2022
EDITORIAL: More energy export Soon after Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba paid a visit to India on April 1-3, the Indian government has given Nepal permission to export an additional 326MW of electricity to the Indian energy market during the wet season. Opinion 08 Apr, 2022
EDITORIAL - Power trade talks The meeting of the Nepal-India Energy Secretary-Level Joint Steering Committee began in Kathmandu on Wednesday to discuss power trade between the two countries and construction of the required infrastructure as well as policy-level challenges. Opinion 24 Feb, 2022