CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS TO THE POWER CRISIS IN NEPALDr Neil PandeConsumer

Scenario of February 2014

Load-shedding: 12 hours/day

Deficit: 434.5MWProduction: 659MW

Yearly GrowthProduction: 40MW

Demand: 80MW

Minimum Requirement to be Load Shedding Free:

2015: 1173.5MW2016: 1253.5MW2017: 1333.5MW2018: 1413.5MW2019: 1493.5MW

HOW IS THE DEMAND BEING MET BY MOST BUSINESSES?

Diesel Generators

Almost USD 1 million dollar worth Diesel being consumed daily by Generators alone

NOC lost Rs171 Crore in Magh 2070 alone

7,50,00,000 Litre Diesel consumed in total in Magh 2070 alone (Loss of Rs 70 loss per litre)

HAZARDS OF DIESEL FUMES

According to American Cancer Society,

Lung cancer is the major cancer thought to be linked to diesel exhaust, including cancers of the larynx (voice box), esophagus, stomach, bladder, blood system cancers such as lymphomas and leukemias (including childhood leukemia).

Lung Cancer is the Number 1 Cancer in Nepal…

BUYING POISON AT A LOSS

SOLUTIONS

Immediate: Heavy subsidies in Home Production of renewable energy, Low-Interest Loans, Grant permissions for Commercial Productions

Long Term: Work towards a MIX in Renewable Energy with NET MeteringCost may be more in the beginning, but the catastrophic health cost of the future

need to be added…Subsidy in Poison MUST STOP…

–Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig

fossil fuels from the

ground as a source

of energy.”