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Denmark’s Helps In Rural Nepal Sustainable Energy
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 3, 2013: Denmark is providing Danish Kroner 205 million (US$36 million) to implement the National Rural and Renewable Energy Program (NRREP) in Nepal following the agreement signed off by Secretary to Finance Ministry Shanta Raj Subedi, and Danish Ambassador to Nepal Mr. Morten Jespersen on behalf of their respective government in Kathmandu on December 07, 2012, according to the news posted on the justmeans.com today.
The objective of the NRREP is to provide more than one million rural households with alternative energy technologies such as small hydropower, biogas, and solar cells and improved cooking stoves. Lack of access to energy in rural Nepal has been a major stumbling block to the Nepal's socioeconomic development and to a lasting peace.
Lives in the rural Nepal will certainly improve with the availability of energy, as it enhances the opportunity of doing various sorts of micro business at each home, and improve the education of children, and health of women that have shouldered the burden of collecting firewood for energy.
With the fund provided by Denmark, the NRREP will have some money to provide the rural communities with credit for building micro-hydro projects, biogas plants, and buy improved stoves.
Denmark has been providing the Government of Nepal with the support for developing and rolling out renewable technologies in rural areas of Nepal since 1998. The new National Rural Renewable Energy Program runs from July 2012 to July 2017. The NRREP's budget is estimated at US$ 184 million. Development Partners and the Government of Nepal will jointly cover the budget.
http://www.justmeans.com/Denmark-Helps-Rural-Nepal-Switch-Sustainable-Energy/57314.html
