Kathmandu residents will now face a loadshedding of up to eight hours within few days. Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has said that the loadshedding in the valley may rise anywhere between six to eight hours within the next few days. However, the systems department of NEA has yet to work out a new loadshedding schedule. “Situation is not good, so we will have to increase the power cut timing for sure,” Sher Singh Bhat, Director of Systems Operation Department at NEA, said. He added that the decision to this effect will be taken

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Pashupatinagar, Oct 22 :Electricity in the remote Yaktapa village has been generated with the use of improved water spin, popularly known as pani ghatta. It is the first time in the whole eastern region that pani-ghatta has been used to generate water-mill power. The active involvement of the residents of Yaktapa and Phakaphok has been able [...]

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Construction works of tunnel and powerhouse of the 14-MW Kulekhani Hydroelectricity Project III have been intensified after the project garnered support from local people and political parties. “We have completed about 10 per cent of the total construction works of the project,” said Shyam Sundar Shrestha, chief of the project. Located at Bhainse Village Development Committee (VDC) [...]

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Nibuwatar, Makawanpur, Apr. 7 : The Kulekhani Hydro Power Project, the nation’s only project that generates power with the help of its water reservoir, has started storing water in its Indrasarovar pond by lessening its power generation capacity. After the Nepal Electricity Authority imported electricity from India, the Kulekhani project cut off its power generation capacity [...]

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Kavre, March 22 - Discussion on the issue of equitable distribution and opportunity of water was challenging at a time when water scarcity hit the country hard, water experts said. They shed light on the importance of experience sharing to solve the problems and advance the development programmes. They Sunday expressed the view while speaking at a [...]

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Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ held discussions with the ministers concerned about the energy crisis in a meeting on resolving the present energy shortage in the country today. At the meeting discussions were held on moving forward the process at the political level with India for the purchase and sale of electricity up to [...]

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 At a time when the country is reeling under energy crisis, the Finance Ministry is preparing to turn the allocated but unused development budget toward projects for alleviating power-cut. “We proposed for investing the allocated but unused development expenditure on energy sector so that the power crunch will lessen next year,” Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, Finance Minister, [...]

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Lamjung, Feb. 10 : Speakers at a programme urged the government to encourage the local people to invest in the hydropower projects to be developed in the district in future. They expressed the view while speaking at a workshop on ‘Access of People of Lamjung to the Power Produced in the District’ organised on the occasion of the inaugural session of the Second Lamjung Festival 2065 B.S. on Tuesday. They further said that it would be harmful to build projects by neglecting the people residing nearby the rivers. They said that the government should make policy to ensure the sharing of benefits among the people living in the areas close to rivers.

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The West Seti Concern Society (WSCS) on Tuesday said that its serious attention had been drawn towards news reports regarding the visit of the Fact Finding Mission (FFM) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and its consultations with the ‘concerned people’ about the project. The WSCS claimed that the Snowy Mountain Engineering Corporation (SMEC) that has undertaken the responsibility of carrying out survey and feasibility study on the project had neglected the concerned local stakeholder.The Society criticised the SMEC that the latter had not been disseminating all the facts and information about the project to the local people since the very beginning. Talking to The Rising Nepal, Bhim Bhandari of WSCS said that although they were invited to the meeting with the visiting ADB team

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मोटरबाटोले छुनसमेत नसकेको कणर्ाली अञ्चलको हुम्ला, सेती अञ्चलको बझाङ, बाजुरा, मनाङ, जुम्ला, पूर्वको ताप्लेजुङ, ओखलढुङ्गाजस्ता जिल्लामा लघुजलविद्युत् आयोजनाबाट उत्पादित बिजुलीले त्यहाँका बासिन्दाहरू ऊर्जामा आत्मनिर्भर भएका छन् । ती स्थानहरूमा प्राधिकरणले आप\mनो प्रशारण लाइन विस्तार गर्न नसकेकालेस्थानीय उत्पादन स्थानीय बासिन्दाले मात्र उपभोगको अवसर प्राप्त गरेका हुन् । दुर्गम स्थानमा सञ्चालित लघुजलविद्युत् आयोजनाबाट पाँच हजार ६७६ किलोवाट बिजुली उत्पादन भइरहेको

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