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Orientation on Electric Cooking Stoves to Staff of Janautthan Microfinance
E-cooking Orientation and Demonstration Event at Bhumahi, Lumbini Province
Installation of Solar RE System at Province Hospital, Karnali Province
Group picture of members of Sana Kishan Cooperative after receiving electric cooking stoves
Orientation and Demonstration of Electric Cooking at Rohini Rural Municipality, Rupandehi
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A lady using electric cooking stove for household purposes

Introduction

The British Embassy Kathmandu-funded, 4.5-year Nepal Renewable Energy Programme (NREP) is a Government of Nepal programme. It is designed to increase private sector investment to develop distributed renewable energy (RE) markets, primarily in commercial, institutional, and industrial market sectors; increase universal energy access, and a corresponding higher quality of life, to Nepali citizens living in remote regions and facilitate a policy, planning, legal construct, and regulatory environment conducive to both enabling and sustaining progress in RE market development and universal energy access.

NREP operates in Provinces Madhesh, Lumbini, and Karnali.  The Programme is implemented by the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) and a consortium led by DAI Global.

Measurable goals of the Programme include:

  • Increase in installed capacity of RE by 16 MW
  • Provision of RE to 95,000 households, 500 small businesses, and 200 schools and health centres
  • Leveraging of £37.2m of private and public sector investment in RE
  • Strengthened institutional and policy reforms and improved compliance mechanisms—across Federal, Provincial, and Local governments
  • Avoided greenhouse gas emissions, e.g., by reducing imported energy during Nepal’s dry season, imported LPG for cooking, and imported diesel for back-up generators

NREP adopts two support modalities which includes financial assistance in the form of a GBP 9.3M Sustainable Energy Challenge Fund with awards based on Viability Gap Funding designed to make marginally feasible projects feasible and bankable; and technical assistance in the form of RE project assessment, financing, Challenge Fund application assistance, and project transaction shaping.

News & Updates 

AEPC and NREP collaborate to host meeting with development partners on “Financing Sustainable Energy Projects”

Development Partners meeting on July 26, 2022, organized by Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) and supported by Nepal Renewable Energy Programme (NREP), centred around financing sustainable energy projects, showcasing recent ...
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Micro-hydro Project Proposal Development Workshop

On July 21, 2022, Government of Nepal's Nepal Renewable Energy Programme (NREP) funded by the British Embassy, Kathmandu (BEK) organized a Micro-hydro Project Proposal Development Workshop. The program was organized ...
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Solar Irrigation Pump Knowledge Sharing Workshop

On July 11, 2022, Government of Nepal's Nepal Renewable Energy Programme (NREP), funded by the British Embassy, Kathmandu (BEK), organized the Solar Irrigation Pump Knowledge Sharing Workshop. The workshop mainly ...
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Call for Concept Note Applications for Sustainable Energy Challenge Fund Financial Assistance for Distributed Renewable Energy Projects

Government of Nepal
Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation

Alternative Energy Promotion Centre
Central Renewable Energy Fund

Call for Concept Note applications for Sustainable Energy Challenge Fund
Financial Assistance for Distributed Renewable Energy Projects
(Published Date: August 6, 2022)

Nepal Renewable Energy Programme (NREP) is a Government of Nepal programme dedicated to increasing private sector investment in distributed renewable energy (DRE) and increasing universal energy access, while facilitating policy, planning, legal construct, and regulatory environment conducive to both enabling and sustaining progress in DRE market development and universal energy access.

Central Renewable Energy Fund (CREF), the financial mechanism of Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), has recently established a Viability Gap Funding based Sustainable Energy Challenge Fund (SECF) with funding support from UK-Aid. SECF provides financial and technical assistance to the DRE projects to ensure their financial viability and sustainable operation.

The SECF application procedure has two-stage process. In the first stage, applications for Concept Note of potential DRE projects, up to 1 MW in installed capacity, are requested. The Concept Notes will be shortlisted based on eligibility of the applicant; technical potentiality, financial aspect, and expected results and impact of the project. In the second stage, shortlisted Concept Note applicants will be invited to submit Full Applications, which will undergo due diligence and evaluation by an Independent Evaluation Panel of DRE experts.

Applications are requested from the project developers of;

  • DRE projects developed in a Public Private Partnership model in partnership with local and provincial governments
  • Projects to be implemented by aggregating demands of DRE technologies and projects for improving energy access including electric cooking to households, micro, small and medium enterprises
  • Projects to improve energy access to the households through reverse auction.
  • Projects proposed for the improvement of technical, financial and managerial aspects of the existing mini and micro hydro projects or other renewable energy mini-grid project
  • Grid-connected solar PV installations at commercial, institutional and industrial buildings (where minimum of 51% of the annual energy produced is used for self-consumption) for bank interest rate buy-down
  • Grid-connected solar PV installations at commercial, institutional and industrial buildings (where minimum of 51% of the annual energy produced is used for self-consumption) for incentives based on kWh generation
  • Innovative DRE projects that meet SECF objectives, e.g. those that may include hybrid generation types, advanced controls that provide grid support and reliability, advanced energy storage technologies that manage grid load, etc.

Priority will be given to the projects developed in off grid areas and contributing for clean energy access to households, enterprises and institutions.

Interested local governments are requested to submit the expression of interest to develop the energy access project through reverse auction modality.

Interested commercial banks are requested to submit the expression of interest to participate in the Loan Loss Guarantee Mechanism.

 With this notice, AEPC/CREF invites all eligible applicants to submit the Concept Notes via online application portal: https://secf.nrepnepal.com. The online application portal will be open to submit the concept notes until end of September 2022. Concept notes received during this period will be evaluated on a rolling basis. So, we encourage the potential applicants to submit their concept notes at earliest possible date.

Interested applicants can also contact us through secf_queries@NREPNepal.com  or call us at 9802323318.

Information Package on SECF including eligibility criteria, application process and Funding Windows, are available at the following websites:
www.moewri.gov.np, www.aepc.gov.np, www.cref.gov.np, www.nrepnepal.com.

AEPC/CREF reserves the right to accept or reject, wholly or partly, any or all the project concepts without assigning any reason, whatsoever.