World Bank Nepal Power-Sector Evidence Record (2018–2025)
A reconciled World Bank evidence record replacing a previously misidentified standalone reform-roadmap citation.
- Page status
- Verified core
- Updated
- 2026-07-13
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-19
- Review due
- 2027-03-01
Summary
This record replaces an earlier misidentified citation to a standalone 2022 "Nepal Power Sector Reform Roadmap," for which no verified World Bank publication was located. It preserves two distinct World Bank evidence trails used by the wiki: the 2025 Nepal Country Economic Memorandum for the commonly cited hydropower-potential figures, and the 2018 Nepal Energy Development Policy Credit programme document for the documented power-market and institutional-reform work.
Key Findings
- The 2025 Country Economic Memorandum describes Nepal's hydropower potential as approximately 83,000 MW, of which 42,000 MW is considered economically viable (pp. 18 and 85–86).
- The 2018 Energy Development Policy Credit programme document records that a PPIAF/World Bank-supported Study on Power Market Reform Roadmap was completed in 2016.
- The same 2018 programme document records policy actions involving electricity regulation, the Nepal Power Trading Company, power-purchase rules and institutional reform. It does not identify a standalone 2022 report with the title previously assigned to this page.
Relevance
The Country Economic Memorandum provides the World Bank provenance for the 42,000 MW economically viable figure used alongside WECS estimates in Hydropower Potential Categories. The Energy Development Policy Credit document provides dated institutional context for pages discussing power-market and sector reform.
Limitations
- This is a combined source record maintained under a legacy slug. The 2018 and 2025 documents must be cited with their own dates and page locations rather than treated as one report.
- The 42,000 MW figure is a broad economic-potential benchmark, not a construction target, current project inventory or statement of firm energy.
- The 2018 programme document describes reform studies and policy actions at that time; it does not establish implementation status after its reporting period.