Green Power Development Project: Bringing Benefits to Bhutan and Beyond

Event:

Green Power Development Project: Bringing Benefits to Bhutan and Beyond

01 October 2015

Author / Speaker:

Kaoru Ogino, ADB - Email the author | Other materials by the author

Aiming Zhou, ADB - Email the author | Other materials by the author

Dongxiang Li, ADB - Email the author | Other materials by the author

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Project Stories:

Knowledge and Power: Lessons from ADB Energy Projects

The Kingdom of Bhutan is one of a few countries in Asia with large, unexploited hydropower resources. Despite the surplus power, many rural households lacked access to electricity in the early to mid-2000s. The Government of Bhutan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) turned this challenge into an opportunity through the Green Power Development Project, which improved energy access and expanded the country’s revenue base due to income from power exports.

Read about ADB’s other energy projects in Knowledge and Power: Lessons from ADB Energy Projects.

Geographical Focus:

Bhutan

Type of Content:

Project Stories

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