Santa Bahadur Pun's scientific contributions
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Publications (6)
Despite the 2014 Indo-Nepal Electric Power Trade Agreement and the 2014 SAARC Framework Agreement for Energy Cooperation (Electricity), India issued two Guidelines within two years, one in 2016 and the other in 2018. After discussing the genesis of these two Guidelines, the author attempts to analyze the 2018 Guidelines. With India citing electrici...
p class="Default">Once the 456 MW Upper Tamakoshi Hydroelectric Project is commissioned by the end of 2018, Nepal is expected to have surplus energy during the wet/monsoon season of 2019. Nepal’s Energy Ministry has decided to resolve this surplus issue through Energy Banking with India whereby Nepal exports her wet season power for India’s dry sea...
p>Despite the Indo-Nepal Electric Power Trade, Cross Border Transmission and Grid Connectivity Agreement of October 2014 and despite the SAARC Framework Agreement on Energy Cooperation (Electricity) of November 2014, the Government of India issued the discriminatory Guidelines on Cross Border Trade of Electricity on December 5, 2016. The Guidelines...
p class="Pa2">Nepal unfurled her 10,000 MW in 10 years Electricity Development Decade 2016/’026 in February 2016 supposedly with one eye on her own domestic consumption but definitely with the other eye on India’s growing hungry market. India, for ‘strategic, national and economic’ reasons, issued her Guidelines on December 5, 2016 whereby preferen...
p>The Nepal government’s Electricity Development Decade 2016/2026 to develop 10,000 MW in 10 years has 11 storage projects totaling over 5,000 MW. Nine of these eleven projects would store 11 billion cubic meters of freshwater submerging vast tracts of fertile valleys, villages, farms and forests in Nepal. Brushing aside these social and environmen...
p>Seven years after Prime Minister Dr. BR Bhattarai’s 38 Point programs to Mitigate National Electricity Crisis, the Energy Ministry of Prime Minister KP Sharma (Oli) recently unveiled another program to Eradicate National Electricity Crisis along with a concept paper and work plan on Electricity Development Decade 2072. This article will focus onl...
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... Released in December 2016, the guideline on cross-border electricity trade mentioned electricity as a commodity of 'strategic' importance (Ministry of Power, 2016;Pillai & Prasai, 2018). A clause in the guideline providing preferential one-time approval for all entities with 51% or more Indian ownership wishing to export electricity from other countries to India became a point of controversy (Pun, 2018). These guidelines were later revised to accommodate concerns voiced by neighbouring countries (Ministry of Power, 2018). ...
... To have year-round irrigation mainly in the Terai region (Indo-Gangetic plain), the irrigation policy of Nepal foresees the need of reservoir projects. Reservoir projects are not only beneficial to Nepal but also to India in terms of irrigation and flood control (Pun, 2017;Upadhyay & Gaudel, 2018). Although stored water of a reservoir can be used for various purposes, in Nepal they are meant for hydropower generation. ...
... A rapid increase in the number of all-weather roads in remote areas has greatly reduced the cost of transportation for off-grid systems and that of the development of big hydro projects, thus, lessening the severity of geographical barriers and supporting RE development. In the last decade, RE coverage has increased from 40.0-77.8% of rural households (Pun, 2016). Transmission line extension, grid connectivity, up-scaling of standalone power plants and so on are still needed for development of RE in Nepal. ...
