NepaleBabu Made in Nepal

 

 

  The first thing you notice about Abhirat Agrawal is his grin. It just radiates. Business is good. At the precocious age of twenty-five, he is a founding partner of Envipower Energy & Fertilizer Pvt. Ltd., a biogas processing facility in Bhairahawa, Nepal. Along with a handful of employees, mostly highly skilled engineers, he’s helping accelerate Nepal’s transition to a low-carbon economy. “I’ve wanted to work in renewable energy since I was a university student,” said Agrawal during a recent tour of the premises. Nepal is increasingly turning to biogas to help wean its dependence on fossil fuels. It is a sustainable energy source with zero net greenhouse emissions, one that uses an all-natural process called anaerobic digestion to turn waste into clean energy. When organic matter like manure, food scraps, or sewage decomposes, under certain conditions it produces methane gas. This gas is then processed, sold, and used for cooking, lighting, heating, electricity generation, an...