The Energy Development Council (EDC), the umbrella association of Nepal’s energy sector, has formed a high level advisory panel to look into and work on various national-level energy issues in the country.

The panel comprises Surya Nath Upadhyay, Govind Raj Pokharel, Amrit Nakarmi, TN Thakur and Joseph Hoess. Upadhyay is the former chief of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) and former secretary of Water Resource.

Similarly, Pokharel is former vice-chairperson of the National Planning Commission and Nakarmi is a professor and affiliated with Center for Energy Studies at the Institute of Engineering.

Thakur is former chairperson and managing director of Power Trade Corporation (PTC-India) and Hoess is the director of Dragon Capital Clean Development Limited, a part of the USD 1.4 billion Dragon Capital group that invests in renewable energy projects in Asia.