Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC), Bhutan's state-controlled hydropower plant operator and developer, invites expressions of interest by 18 March from qualified international consultant firms to provide technical advisory services for the update of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the Dorji...
By 2020, we'll be exporting enough electricity to offset 17 million tons of carbon dioxide. And if we were to harness even half our hydropower potential, and that's exactly what we are working at, the clean, green energy that we export would offset something like 50 million tons of ...
Bhutan´s hydropower potential and its attraction for tourists are key resources. Model education, social, and environment programs are underway with support from multilateral development organizations. Each economic program takes into account the government´s desire to protect the country´s ...
Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC), Bhutan’s state-controlled hydropower plant operator and developer, invites expressions of interest by 22 March from qualified international consulting firms to carry out an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the Integrated Gongri hydropower project...
Bhutan's small economy is based largely on hydropower, agriculture, and forestry, which provide the main livelihood for more than half the population. Because rugged mountains dominate the terrain and make the building of roads and other infrastructure difficult and expensive, industrial production is...
If hydropower projects drives the country’s macroeconomics, the medicinal plants programs can be considered the microeconomics that improves farmers’ socio-economic status. Farmers have expressed that due to the medicinal plant collection program, they could afford good houses, horses, household ...
Bhutan's small economy is based largely on hydropower, agriculture, and forestry, which provide the main livelihood for more than half the population. Because rugged mountains dominate the terrain and make the building of roads and other infrastructure difficult and expensive, industrial production is...
(ADB) signed a trade-finance agreement to provide further loans and guarantees to develop international trade. The EIU predicts the trade deficit in Bhutan to narrow in 2011-12 as strong levels of grants facilitating construction of new hydropower projects are expected to continue and development ...
As an example of the links between forests and economy, the productivity of a hydropower plant is affected by the sediment load of the river feeding it, and that sediment load depends on upstream land cover and land use systems to retain soil [14]. In many ways, thus, the natural ...