National infrastructure & investment proposal
AGROGRID NEPAL
Building Nepal’s Second Energy System
From agricultural residues to energy security, climate resilience and rural industrialization.
PAN PANFounder, AgroGrid
What if the agricultural residues produced every year across Nepal could become part of the country’s national energy infrastructure?
AGROGRID NEPAL presents a practical framework for transforming agricultural residues into reliable, dispatchable electricity while creating new value for farmers, rural industries, biochar, carbon removal, and Nepal’s wider economy.
This is not a general book about biomass. The argument is integrated: agriculture → energy → farmer income → carbon → rural industry → national resilience.
The proposal begins with AGROGRID NEPAL 10™ — a first 10 MW national demonstration designed to prove the complete system: feedstock, technology, generation, farmer participation, siting, financing, construction, operations, biochar, carbon measurement, and project economics.
- Is agricultural feedstock sufficient?
- What transport radius holds?
- How much electricity can 10 MW actually deliver?
- Is a US$0.07/kWh engineering target achievable?
- Does a US$12–15 million investment frame hold?
- What do farmers receive?
- How much second-layer value can biochar and carbon create?
- Where should the first plant stand?
- How is it financed?
- Can development, construction, and commissioning finish in 18–24 months?
- How does the first 10 MW become 100 MW?
AGROGRID NEPAL 10™
Prove the model.
10 MW
First national demonstration
≈80,000 t/year
Agricultural feedstock
≈74.46 GWh/year
85% utilization development case
US$12–15M
Target total investment
≈US$0.07/kWh
Engineering electricity target
Development-model targets. They require Nepal feedstock, site, grid, engineering, and commercial feasibility.
Electricity + Heat + Biochar + Carbon
One agricultural resource. One integrated energy system. Multiple values.
Maximize the value of every tonne of agricultural resource.
100 MW is not one 100 MW plant
For low-density agricultural biomass, long-distance transport can destroy the economics.
AGROGRID NEPAL 100™ is a distributed network of 5–20 MW Regional Agricultural Energy Hubs — not one giant centralized biomass station.
Do not haul biomass across the country to fit the plant. Size and locate the plant to fit the agricultural resource. Let the harvest decide where the infrastructure stands, so energy can support processing, cold chain, drying, irrigation, food manufacturing, local industry, and jobs.
The objective is not to build one enormous centralized biomass power station. From the first 10 MW, the pathway is a distributed national platform — and a larger question: how much of Nepal’s electricity can safely, economically, and sustainably come from what Nepal already grows?
SIZE THE PLANT TO FIT THE BIOMASS.
SCALE THE TECHNOLOGY. LOCALIZE THE BIOMASS.
More than a kilowatt-hour
Four national values
Energy security
A domestic, storable, dispatchable agricultural energy layer — distinct from oil, gas, and imported electricity.
Climate resilience
Distributed generation, sustainable residue use, biochar, and carbon-removal potential.
Agricultural value
A market for residues, and a second income for farmers and cooperatives — with biochar returned to the land.
Rural industrialization
24/7 productive energy where food is grown: cold storage, drying, processing, irrigation, packaging, and local manufacturing.
How much of Nepal’s electricity can safely, economically, and sustainably come from agricultural residues the country already produces each year?
If the answer is 5%, that is already a strategic domestic energy layer.
If resources, economics, environment, and long-term operations support 10%, it can become a national energy pillar.
The percentage is not decided first.
- Resource first.
- Proof second.
- Scale third.
- Percentage last.
RESOURCE FIRST. PROOF SECOND. SCALE THIRD. PERCENTAGE LAST.
- 1
10 MW
First national demonstration
- 2
100 MW
Distributed national platform
- 3
Assessment
National sustainable feedstock assessment
- 4
≈5%
Potential share of national electricity
- 5
10% Vision™
AGROGRID NEPAL 10% Vision™
- 6
Higher share
Only if sustainability allows
Grow energy without undermining agriculture
- No competition with food
- No damage to soil health
- No deforestation
- No unsustainable feedstock removal
- No long-distance biomass model that destroys the economics
The highest sustainable economic value of agricultural resources.
Power where food grows.
Industry where energy and food meet.
Power the harvest. Protect the nation. Industrialize the countryside.
PAN PANFounder, AgroGrid