Narayan Prasad Adhikari is the deputy executive director of the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), which is the nodal governmental agency for the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency in Nepal. He is the head of the technology division and has more than 16 years of work experience in the renewable energy sector, especially on off-grid electrification projects in rural areas of the country. He has been coordinating various off-grid electrification projects under the support of the Asian Development Bank and World Bank.