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SOUTH ASIA-JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
卷 36, 期 4, 页码 496-519出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2013.788469
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energy poverty; energy access; rural electrification; national energy planning; energy policy; Nepal; hydroelectricity; energy crisis; Nepal Electricity Authority
Underinvestment, low levels of electricity access, natural disasters, topography and hydrology make Nepal's electricity crisis akin to peeling a pickle': difficult to pin down and hard to manage. Based primarily on the perceptions of a sample of experts, this article lays out a roadmap for how the pickle' of the Nepali electricity crisis can be peeled. Drawing on primary data collection from research interviews, the study offers a brief summary of the Nepali electricity and energy sectors. It then details six separate electricity challenges identified by respondentstopography and climate; political instability resulting from the aftermath of the Maoist insurgency; poverty and corruption; lack of financing and investment; constrained technological and human resources; and, finally, aid dependency and political manoeuvring. We conclude by calling on Nepali policymakers to invest in distributed generation, transmission upgrades, seasonal hydroelectric storage and industrial energy efficiency practices, and to introduce electricity tariff reforms, among other measures.
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