Kathmandu, Aug. 21 -- The Energy Ministry in a draft bill related to energy consumption and saving has proposed to form a Nepal Energy Efficiency and Conservation Board which will monitor the energy consumed by production and service-oriented businesses and enforce measures to make such entities more energy efficient.

Energy efficiency has been defined in the bill as 'process related to ways of controlling or managing the consumption of power such that the available quantity of fossil fuels, biofuels, electricity is put into optimum utilisation or usage of power is minimised without lowering outputs.

For instance, if a factory is found to have used a machine which can be replaced by similar equipment which consumes less electricity or f...