The world is watching to see whether the returns compensate for 'political risk' of investing in Nepal

Nepal's small and medium sized companies have growth potentials but often lack capital and skills to invest. Dolma Impact Fund (DIF), which was founded in September 2014, is helping has been providing capital and expertise to such companies. It is the only international private equity fund focused purely on Nepal. It has so far raised US$ 26 million for the purpose. 

Energy ministers’ new commitment.

The newly elected deputy prime minister and energy minister Mr. Top Bahadur Rayamajhi has recently expressed his verbal commitment to provide equal treatment between domestic (private), NEA's projects and foreign funded projects. Let's find out what additional benefits NEA and foreign funded projects are getting at the moment.

Dollar PPA: Reasons for and against it

In my previous post, I wrote about what we lose if we do "dollar denominated PPA for 15 years from COD for up to 55 percent of total payment." I concluded that Nepal ends up paying an additional amount of NRs. 71.16 million per MW.