ASTHA Nepal

Regional Service center of National Rural and Renewable Energy Project (NRREP)/AEPC.

Project Partner

NRREP/AEPC

Total Project Cost

NRS  64,560,303.00

Start Date18

August 2013

Ending Date

15 July 2017

Target Group

Women, Dalits, Janjaties and pro-poor community especially who do not have access of clean energy technology.

Objectives

  • The main objective of this project is to improve the living standard of rural women and men, increase employment of women and men as well as productivity, reduce dependency on traditional energy and attain sustainable development through integrating the alternative energy with the socioeconomic activities of women and men in rural communities.

Major Achivements

  • Major achievements of RSC

    Community Electrification Sub Component 

    • 1194 kW Testing and commissioning and 12008 household benefited
    • 692 kW One year guarantee check
    • 71 MHPs prefeasibility study (PFS)
    • 38 MHPs Detail Feasibility Study (DFS)
    • 27 MHPs Conditional Approval (TRC) 1849 Kw
    • 20 MHPs final approval , 793.5 kW
    • 31 MHPs Support Equipment Delivery for community (EDF), 917.5 kW
    • 18 MHPs e-bidding company Selection, 683.5 kW
    • 33 MHPs Additional financial Project, 1147 kW.

    Solar energy Sub component

    • 32 RSDWPs demand collection
    • 30 RSDWPs pre-feasibility study
    • 30 RSDWPs Detail feasibility study
    • 9 RSDWPs site verification
    • 19 RSWDPs final Approval
    • 9 RSWDPs testing and commissioning
    • 20 institutional solar project demand collection of School
    • 8 RSDWPs 2 year warranty checked

    Productive energy Unit  sub component (PEU)

    • 35 Local Economic Development Committees
    • 9 MSMEs conducted training for MSMEs and LEDCs(SIYB)
    • 146 Person MSMEs
    • 24 IGA group formation
    • 24 training conduct for IGA group
    • 727 Person IGAs

    Biomass sub component

    • 12464 ICS installed
    • Monitoring and supervision

    Climate and Carbon Unit

    • 61 MHPs reporting and energy meter data collection
    • 600 IWM tagging reporting

    4 MHPs Energy meter joint

Activities

  • It will have a positive effect on environment and climate change in nine districts of mid-western region of Nepal.
  • It will increase an income generation and employment potential for micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSME) in rural areas, particularly for men and women belonging to socially and economically disadvantaged groups.
  • Better quality Improved Cooking Stoves will be delivered to an increasing number of rural households, in particular to the poor in remote villages.
  • It will mainstream GESI in the energy sector through providing equal access to and control of renewable energy technologies (RET) for increasing contributions to rural women and men towards economic growth.

    Project Location

    Humla, Jumla, Mugu, Kalikot, Surkhet, Jajarkot, Dailekh, Banke and Bardiya

     

    Participation of Women and DAG

    As one of the objective of this project is to mainstream the mainstream GESI in the energy sector through providing equal access to and control of renewable energy technologies (RET) for increasing contributions to rural women and men towards economic growth. So in this project women and DAG will be mobilized or participated equally in this program tenure.