World Bank NIETTP Load-Shedding GDP-Cost Estimate

Summary

World Bank project document for the Nepal-India Electricity Transmission and Trade Project that contains the specific load-shedding cost estimate used in the documentary verification pass.

Key Data Points

• The document describes Nepal's 2007-2017 electricity shortage period, including load shedding of up to roughly 14 hours per day.
• It states that load shedding cost Nepal an estimated 7% of GDP annually during that era.

Relevance

This is the correct World Bank citation for the 7% of GDP load-shedding cost claim. The World Bank Country Economic Memorandum 2025 supports the post-load-shedding reliability context but does not contain this exact GDP-cost estimate on the checked page.

Limitations

• The estimate describes the load-shedding era, not current outage costs.
• It should be cited as a World Bank project-document estimate, not as a new 2025 CEM finding.