Peeling the Energy Pickle: Expert Perceptions on Overcoming Nepal's Electricity Crisis

Sovacool, Benjamin K.; Dhakal, Saroj; Gippner, Olivia; Bambawale, Malavika Jain

doi:10.1080/00856401.2013.788469

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“…The result is a large number of rolling power outages (Nayar et al, 2012). For example, some rural areas in Pakistan experienced load shedding and blackouts for up to 20 hours a day in 2012, while Nepal experienced up to 14hour daily power outages in 2013 (Sovacool et al, 2013). However, since October 2016, the daily blackouts in Nepal have ended rather rapidly after the implementation of a combination of supply-side measures and demand side management measures backed by strong political support.…”

Section: (Iii) Continued Shortages In Generation Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Electricity cooperation in South Asia: Barriers to cross-border trade

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Section: (Iii) Continued Shortages In Generation Capacitymentioning

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Electricity cooperation in South Asia: Barriers to cross-border trade

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“…The World Bank added to the collective woes by estimating a 10 per cent loss of business sales owing to load shedding (Gunter ). Aggravating a much‐lamented scarcity, technical, commercial, and political inefficiencies accounted for a waste of nearly 45 per cent of generated power (Gulati & Rao ), a trend also noticeable in India and Nepal (Kale ; Sovacool, Dhakal, Gippner & Bambawale ). In August 2010, a five‐hour shut‐off of air conditioners and a six‐hour close‐down of gas stations per day were slapped on the capital city for a month to tackle the peak summer‐season crunch (Ethirajan ).…”

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Mines and signs: resource and political futures in Bangladesh

Chowdhury

2016

Royal Anthropological Inst

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In Bangladesh in 2007‐8, speculation about an energy catastrophe thrived alongside utopic visions of democracy. Two events consolidated the despair and hope for collective national futures: a movement against possible coal mines in Phulbari in the northwest and a nationwide political emergency. They are the focus of this essay. By bringing resource crisis and political crisis together, I argue, at one level, that resource and democracy have become two exemplary sites of thinking towards the future, and, at another, that the gaps in their varied imaginations are potential sites of politics. Drawing on my ethnography of the anti‐mining protests in Phulbari, I analyse the relationship between signification and anticipation in Bangladeshi politics. In so doing, I identify those emergent political moments that challenge the anticipatory politics of the state and the energy company.

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“…Various projections suggest that due to its mountainous terrain Nepal has 83,000 MW (megawatts) of exploitable hydropower resources (and 43,000 MW of "economic potential" or 180,000 GWh/yr), emanating from thousands of its fast flowing rivers and streams that total a length of more than 45,000 km (kilometers) [6,7]. Yet so far the country has tapped less than 650 MW of this potential and hydroelectricity meets less than 1% of total national energy consumption [2].…”

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“…The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), the government-linked monopoly electricity supplier, serves only 15% of the country's total population [1]. For this small fraction of customers, reliable electricity access is less than 8 h per day, with rotational blackouts accounting for the remaining 16 h [2]. In December 2008 the Nepal Government declared a "national energy crisis" [3] and one year later the World Bank argued that "Nepal is experiencing an energy crisis of unprecedented severity, caused by years of under-investment and sharp growth in electricity demand" [4].…”

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