Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!bionet!com.qz.se!P2269 From: P2269@com.qz.se ("ENG-LEONG FOO ", MIRCEN-STOCKHOLM) Newsgroups: bionet.technology.conversion Subject: Biogas: Energy Alternatives in Nepal Message-ID: <8905151824.AA11697@net.bio.net> Date: 11 May 89 07:09:00 GMT Sender: daemon@NET.BIO.NET Reply-To: "ENG-LEONG FOO (MIRCEN-STOCKHOLM)" Lines: 19 In a report on the "Evaluation of Alternate Energy Technologies in Nepal" (available from:- His Majesty'S Government of Nepal, Ministry of Water Resources, Water and Energy Commission, Kathamandu, Nepal), three technologies are currently promoted by His Majesty' Government of Nepal in their 7th Five-Year Plan. Improved cookstoves, micro- hydro electricity and biogas systems are considered for their abilities to substitute for or conserve traditional fuels in rural or semi-urban areas. Biogas systems provide significant economic benefits both in terms of savings of fuelwood and of kerosene. The high capital cost makes biogas systems unattractive to users however from a technical and economic perspective, only biogas proved to have economic benefits much greater than financial ones and thus has justified an HMG/N subsidy to promote it. A subsidy of as much as 50 % of the capital cost has been shown to be desirable.