In 2009, I was visiting Nepal on vacation after a software company I’d co-founded in San Francisco got acquired.I was in for a surprise. Although I grew up in a rural farm and didn’t see electricity until I was 7, I was not expecting 16 hours of loadshedding in the nation’s capital. Everyone was keeping weird hours to perform basic tasks like charging phone, ironing clothes, or pumping water. Businesses were changing their operating hours to whenever electricity would be available, and some were even shutting down.

Around the same time, the price of solar was coming down enough and solar was starting as an industry. So, I decided to move back to Nepal and start Gham Power to provide solar electricity at prices better than diesel, and do this as a commercially viable private business, without depending on grants and subsidies.

Sandeep Giri
Founder, CEO

Message from CEO
कृषि अनुदानः कहाँ र कसरी ?

कृषि अनुदानः कहाँ र कसरी ?

कृषि नेपालको अर्थतन्त्रको मुख्य आधार हो, जसले लगभग ६० प्रतिशत जनसंख्यालाई जीविकोपार्जन प्रदान गर्दछ र यसले कुल गार्हस्थ्य उत्पादनमा लगभग २३ प्रतिशत योगदान पुर्याउँदछ। तथापि, कृषि क्षेत्रले कम उत्पादकत्व, आयातमा उच्च निर्भरता, जलवायु परिवर्तन, पूर्वाधार र प्रविधिको...

A Step to Overcoming Nepal’s Energy Crisis with Solar

A Step to Overcoming Nepal’s Energy Crisis with Solar

As the dry season starts in Nepal, Nepalese industries have been experiencing power cuts lasting as long as 9 hours per day. Consequently, the majority of industries these days operate only during specific hours. They have limited access to electricity and their...