HETAUDA, Feb 25 - The Kulekhani Hydropower Project is on the verge of closing its operation, thanks to ever-receding water level in its reservoir. “Two more weeks of dry spell and we are shut,” says Amod Yadav, project engineer. As of Wednesday evening, the water level at Indra Sarowar (reservoir) was at 1495 m. The project will [...]

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KATHMANDU, Feb 26 - Keeping in view the disasters caused by the Koshi River over the years, the government has come up with a pilot project to sustainably manage its basins and promote socio-economic development in the riparian community. A joint initiative of Water and Energy Commission Secretariat (WECS) and World Wildlife Fund, the Koshi River [...]

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Nepal has started importing 35 megawatts of electricity from India through the Duhabi-Kataiya transmission line from Wednesday. The floods in Koshi river last year line had disrupted the line. Before the line was destroyed, Nepal had been importing 60 MW from India. According to Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), the import of power will not contribute to minimize [...]

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काठमाडौं -फागुन २) । स्वतन्त्र रेडियो र मिडियाहरुले भोग्नुपरेको ऊर्जा सङ्कट समाधान गर्न सरकारले वैकल्पिक उर्जाको प्रयोग गर्ने विकल्प अघि सारेको छ । सञ्चालनमा आएका रेडिया,े टेलिभिजन र ‘क’ वर्गमा परेका पत्रिकाहरुले बैकल्पिक ऊर्जा प्रयोग गर्ने प्रस्ताव गरेमा सरकारले दर्ुगम क्षेत्रलाई दिंदैआए सरहको एक मुष्ठ अनुदान र सुबिधा दिने निर्ण्र्ाागरेको हो । म्ााघ २६ गते मन्त्रीस्तरको निर्ण्र्ााे [...]

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Primary thing to understand is that export of electricity produced in Nepal to India is normal economic activity. Until the two countries finalize the agreement on sharing water, distribution water resources in the eyes of international laws will not be finalized. That is why it was very clear that this project needed no approval from parliament or constituent assembly. The court has made it clearer

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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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NEW DELHI: Prices of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), the energy-efficient alternatives to light bulbs, are likely to go up by 10-15% with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) mandating a new standard for such products. Industry association Elcoma has asked that implementation of the BIS directive, which requires addition of new components, be postponed by a year. BIS has mandated that CFLs carry a high power factor (HPF) stamp from January 1, 2009. Such stamps would signify that the product is powered to reduce the electricity load and bring down transmission losses.

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Amidst media reports that the 12-14 hours of daily power outage that the country is currently facing might further increase, a top government official has said that it will instead be reduced by half from February 26. Similarly, the government official also assured that the pro-longed load-shedding hours will be done away with for good in the next 5 years time. Briefing the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Sunday morning, Secretary at the Ministry for Water Resources (MoWR) Shankar Koirala informed that the transmission line within Nepal and that linking to India (for importing electricity from India) which had been destroyed during last year's flood will be repaired by February 19, leading to a significant reduction in the daily power cuts or load-shedding

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The government has decided to make an official request to the Japanese government to support the Upper Seti Hydro-Electric Project (USHEP). Minister for Finance Dr Baburam Bhattarai said the government will ask Japan for support for the construction of USHEP, amidst a press conference organised before his departure to Japan today. Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JAICA) has already performed survey over the project that estimates to produce 127 MW of hydroelectricity. Dr Bhattarai said, "We believe that if the Japanese government agrees to provide support in the construction of the project, it will substantially help in evading the load-shedding

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At a time when Nepal is facing acute power shortage, some three dozen remote villages in western part of the country are enjoying round-the-clock electricity supply, thanks to the indigenous means of power generation. These remote villages in Baglung district, some 600 km west of Kathmandu, are fulfilling their electricity need with the power generated from local means like micro-hydro electricity projects, solar panels and peltric. Interestingly, these villages have no linkage with the national power grid. Some 14 years back, residents at Tara Village located some 35 km west from the district headquarters, were first to set up a five-megawatt plant on the nearby Tara River for local electricity consumption

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