KATHMANDU: Nepal has a potential to generate 53,000 megawatts of hydropower, Prof Narendra Man Shakya, Water Resource Programme Coordinator at the Institute of Engineering, told this daily today. According to Shakya, the estimate was based on the latest water discharge data available with the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, using Geographic Information System software. Dr Raghu Nath [...]

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BIRATNAGAR, MAR 08 - Industrialists in the Sunsari - Morang industrial corridor are ready to build the 50 MW thermal plant, if the government provides the loan for 20 years. “We do not just point out problems but also provide solutions to the government,” said Ashok Murarka, director of Murarka Organisation. “If the government provides the [...]

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Five international companies have submitted proposals for commissioning the Dhading-based Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project with installed capacity of 600-MW. Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) had formed a committee headed by its board member Lekhman Singh Bhandary a month ago to assess the financial and technical capability of the five proposing companies. The committee is preparing financial and [...]

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राम केसी, (सिन्धुपाल्चोक), देशले लोडसेडिङको मार खेपिरहेको बेला आगामी डेढ वर्षभत्र सम्पन्न गर्ने लक्ष्यका साथ गेलुङखोला विद्युत् आयोजनको कार्य शुरू भएको छ। जिल्लाको मध्य क्षेत्रमा पर्ने हगाम गाविसको गेलुङखोलाबाट गेलुङखोला हाइड्रोपावर कम्पनी लिमिटेडले ३ हजार ३ सय ५० किलोवाट क्षमताको विद्युत् आयोजनाको निर्माणकार्य शुरू गरेको हो। बरम्ची गाविसको ढाँडेदेखि हगामको पाटीचौरसम्मको १९ किलोमिटर प्रवेश मार्गको निर्माण कार्य [...]

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KATHMANDU, FEB 21 - The government has asked the World Bank (WB) to construct Upper Arun Hydropower Project (335 MW). During a meeting held between Energy Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat and Isabel Guerreo, World Bank Vice President for South Asian Region, on Sunday, the ministry put forward the proposal for investment in Upper Arun project. In September [...]

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काठमाडौं, २०६६ पुस १४ ­ नेपालको सुदूरपश्चिमाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्रमा विकास गर्न लागिएको ७५० मेगावाट क्षमताको पश्चिम सेती जलविद्युत आयोजनामा चिनियाँ सरकारी कम्पनी चाइना नेशनल मेसिनरी एण्ड इक्विप्मेन्ट इम्पोर्ट एण्ड एक्सपोर्टर्र्कर्पोरेशन -सिमेक) ले ५१ प्रतिशत सेयर लगानी  भएको छ । पश्चिम सेतीमा सिमेकले थप लगानी गर्ने सहमति पत्रमा हिजो सोमवार राती हस्ताक्षर भएको छ । समझदारी पत्रमा [...]

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Tata Power, India’s integrated private power utility, and SN Power, Norway’s international renewable energy company, recently signed an exclusive partnership agreement to develop joint hydropower projects in India and Nepal. This is the first time that Tata Power has entered into an exclusive partnership with another hydropower company, stated a press statement issued by Tata Power. The [...]

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is likely to withdraw its investment from West Seti Hydro (WSH) project to which the bank had earlier agreed for 15 percent investment share. Nagarik daily quoted sources at the energy ministry to have said that the ADB is reluctant to invest in WSH saying the project is not commercially attractive. [...]

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The visiting Chinese delegation has pledged support to Nepal on various fronts including food assistance, construction of a hydro project and Nepal’s consulate building in Lhasa, reports say. In a meeting with deputy Prime Minister and foreign minister Sujata Koirala, Wednesday, the Chinese delegation led by the executive deputy chairperson of Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) Hao [...]

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The protracted progress of West Seti Hydroelectric Project in absence of financial arrangement is again taking a move ahead. One of the senior project officials informed to start 10 km long access road, connecting project's site and Seti Highway, to encourage the investors. "To trim down the project's uncertainty existing among locals, government and investors, we are constructing access road with investment from SMEC," the official told the Rajdhani. According to an official at the Ministry of Energy

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