sari_report
Sector: Regional Energy Trade
April 18, 2023
One of the challenges faced by countries in South Asia is mobilizing investments at an affordable cost required for building the generation capacities and regional transmission network in the region because hydro and thermal power projects (which form bulk of the regional power trade in Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal region) and regional transmission networks are both capital and time intensive in nature.
July 5, 2022
The South Asian countries have been undertaking Cross Border Electricity Trade (CBET) through transmission
interconnections for over five decades. In the eastern region, CBET is undertaken between India and the other three countries viz. Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal.
July 5, 2022
South Asia is amongst the fastest growing regions in the World driving forward the global economic growth. With rapid economic growth, the energy demand in South Asia is expected to more than double by 2030 against 20181 levels.
July 5, 2022
This report is part of the study undertaken on “The transition to trilateral and multilateral power trade in South Asia”, under USAID’s South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy Integration (SARI/EI) program.
July 5, 2022
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional organization comprising seven Member States (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand) lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal constituting a contiguous regional unity.
July 4, 2022
The United States Agency for International Development (USAlD) is an independent government agency that provides economics, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States. USAID’s mission is to dvance broad-based economics growth, democracy, and human progress in developing countries and emerging economies.
July 4, 2022
The BBINS region currently resides in an energy paradox, being rich in energy reserves while lagging in access to reliable, affordable, and clean energy on the other hand.
July 4, 2022
The draft Report was circulated to the key officials and decision makers in South Asian Country governments (Energy/Power Ministries), Electricity Regulatory Commissions, Planning Authorities etc. Their feedback and thoughts have helped make this report more robust and relevant to all the stakeholders.
July 4, 2022
COVID-19 has impacted economies across the world in unprecedented ways, including by taking a toll on the South Asian power sector.
June 13, 2022
Based on the invitation received Mr. Rajiv Ratna Panda, Associate Director, SARI/EI/IRADe participated as speaker in the second in a 2021 series of webinar from the Clean Energy Ministerial’s Regional and Global Energy Interconnection (RGEI) Initiative held on 4th March,2021 and presented on “One Sun One World One Grid: Energy Integration in South Asia”.
June 13, 2022
I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the excellent work done by the SARI/EI team at IRADe andloitte India in developing the background paper.
June 13, 2022
Natural gas (NG) is less polluting than other fossil fuels for power generation, as also for transportation, household and industry sector and also offers economic advantage in preference to other fuel options.
May 13, 2022
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered and highly contagious Coronavirus. The virus was stated to have originated sometime in the month of December 2019 in the Wuhan district of China.
May 13, 2022
The “#9pm9minute” candle light event on 3rd April demonstrated both the high resilience of the Indian Grid, as well as the unique level of cooperation amongst the BBIN countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal) towards operation of the regional grid.
May 13, 2022
Based on the invitation received from SAARC Secretariat, Kathmandu, Nepal, SARI/EI Delegation comprising of Mr. Rajiv Ratna Panda, Technical-Head, SARI/EI/IRADe participated in the 4th Meeting Fourth Meeting of SAARC Energy Regulators, 06-07 Feb. 2020, Thimphu, Bhutan.