During project appraisal in 2008, only 33% Nepal’s households were being served with grid electricity, and the country could not generate adequate power to totally meet demand. Nepal’s hydropower generation potential alone is estimated at 43,000 megawatt (MW) but the total installed generation capacity was only 615 MW in 2008.
Georgia possesses large untapped hydropower resources. At project appraisal, its hydropower potential was estimated at as much as 80 terawatt-hours (TWh) per annum, of which up to 60 TWh was considered economically feasible and less than 20% was being utilized.
At the request of the Government of India (GOI), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved in March 2006 a 4-tranche, $300 million multitranche financing facility (MFF) to help implement the Uttarakhand Power Sector Investment Program (UPSIP). The UPSIP aimed to meet the priority infrastructure requirements identified in Uttarakhand’s roadmap for state energy sector development.
Uttarakhand, in the northern part of India, is one the country’s poorest states. It was created in November 2000 from a split in the state of Uttar Pradesh. At around 2008, its annual per capita electricity consumption was less than half the national average, and economic development was constrained by lack of power supply.
In 2006, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a 10-year, $800 million multitranche financing facility (MFF) to support an investment program that aimed to assist Pakistan in overcoming the capacity constraints in its power transmission system.
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