Published on: Aug 05, 2022
When USAID launched South Asian Regional Energy Initiative (SARI/EI) aiming to improve the energy trade among the South Asian countries two decades ago, countries in the region did not have separate business entirety, cross border transmission line and regulatory mechanism for energy trade. Although the energy trade pattern is still dominated by bilateral arrangements between regional countries, there is now everything to conduct the trade at regional level. Nepal has turned from net importer to net exporter with reliable cross border transmission line starting to export electricity to India. Now, Nepal has started to talk on modality for export of big volume of electricity to India and Bangladesh
By Keshab Poudel | Aug 07, 2022