Kathmandu Energy Storage Project Powering Nepal s
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Nepal has enormous potential for off-river PHES. The Global Pumped Hydro Storage Atlas [42, 43] identifies ~2800 good sites in Nepal with combined storage capacity of 50 TWh (Fig. 6). To put this in perspective, the amount of storage typically required to balance 100% renewable energy in an advanced economy is ~1 day of energy use .
Government and international support for a few hundred megawatts of rooftop solar and solar farms in Nepal will help to overcome the initial hurdle, leading to rapidly increasing solar infrastructure and deployment skill, and a rapidly declining solar-electricity price.
Nepalese people can expect to achieve a high living standard over the course of the twenty-first century. The per-capita electricity consumption in developed countries such as the European Union, Japan, China, the USA, Singapore and Australia is 5–15 megawatt-hours (MWh) per person per year.
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