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 [...]
Archive | November, 2009
ADB to withdraw from West Seti, Watch group set up
Posted on 27 November 2009 by editor
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. [...]
Chinaese support for hydro-power and consulate building
Posted on 27 November 2009 by editor
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 [...]
India, Nepal clear decks for hydel power project
Posted on 27 November 2009 by editor
SILIGURI/DHARAN: After remaining in the backburner for nearly 15 years after a bilateral treaty between India and Nepal, the 6400-mw multipurpose Pancheswar hydel power project is finally going to see the light of day. The two countries have set a January 2010 deadline to form Pancheshwar Development Authority (PDA) for execution of the single largest Indo-Nepal [...]
Tags: ADb, Chinese investment in Nepal, CMEC, electricity, hydronepal, hydronepal.org, IL&FS, Loadshedding, nayanepal, NEA, Nepal, Nepalhydro, pashupatinagar, power cut, power project, Prakash Saran Mahat, rising nepal, sagarmatha, SMEC, WB, world bank
West Seti to Leap Forward
Posted on 18 November 2009 by editor
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
Tags: hydronews, loadsheding, NEA, nepali power project, power cut, Prakash Saran Mahat
विद्युत् महसुल बढ्ने
Posted on 18 November 2009 by editor
काठमाडौं, २ मंसिर: सरकारले विद्युत् महसुल बढाउने भएको छ । ऊर्जामन्त्री डा.प्रकाशशरण महतले हालको घाटा थेग्नका लागि नेपाल विद्युत् प्राधिकरणका सामु विद्युत्शुल्क बढाउनुको विकल्प नरहेको बताउँदै अब केही दिनभित्रैमा महसुल वृद्धि गर्ने तयारी भएको बताए । रिपोर्र्टर्स क्लबद्वारा मंगलबार राजधानीमा आयोजित साक्षात्कार कार्यक्रममा ऊर्जामन्त्री महतले विगत नौ वर्षता विद्युत् महसुल नबढाइएको जानकारी दिँदै अहिले बाध्य भएर [...]
तामाकोसीमा नागरिक लगानी कोषको २ अर्ब
Posted on 18 November 2009 by editor
कोषले पनि नेपाल टेलिकमले जस्तै ऋण लगानीको १० प्रतिशत संस्थापक सेयर पाउने छ। नेपाल विद्युत प्राधिकरण, माथिल्लो तामाकोसी जलविद्युत र कोषका उच्च अधिकारीबीच आइतबार भएको बैठकले २० करोड रुपैयाँको सेयर दिने निर्णय भएको हो। प्राधिकरणका कार्यकारी निर्देशक जिवेन्द्र झाले आयोजना सञ्चालन गर्ने कम्पनी अप्पर तामाकोसी हाइड्रो पावर लिमिटेडको २० करोड रुपैयाँ बराबरको संस्थापक सेयर दिने निर्णय गरेको बताए।
Tags: ADb, asian development banck, Bikash Thapa, government of nepal, hydronepal, upper seti project, West Seti, West Seti Hydroelectric Project
West Seti and ADB
Posted on 03 November 2009 by editor
By Bikash Thapa“The reality of suggestions and activities being extended by its staffs and consultants in its Kathmandu office against Nepal’s interest and development is clarified through its West Seti policy.” Download his article from Kantipur It has almost been one and half decade since we hear the talks on implementation of West Seti (reservoir-based 750 MW) which [...]
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Guest Column
Mahakali Treaty outcome of economic nationalism
By Hari Bansh Jha
It was on 12 February 1996 that the the Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and the then Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao signed an agreement on the integrated development of the Mahakali river in Delhi. The Pancheshwor Project under the Treaty was expected to produce 6,000 MW of hydro-power with the investment cost [...]
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Interview
No alternative to power purchase from India : Mahat
The meeting of the Joint Commission on Water Resources is scheduled for the first week of November and is to be followed soon after by ministerial-level talks that will take up all issues relating to the setting up of the Pancheshwar Development Authority and reach a conclusion. We have informally agreed to locate PDA headquarters in Nepal
Posted in Interview on 08-10-2009 Comments (0)
Opinoin Tank
Pain of Losing West Seti
By Sudheer Raj Sharma Dhakal
The well-versed 750 MW West Seti Hydroelectric Project (WSHP) is once again capturing major energy headlines in both the print and electronic media of Nepal. Looked as a porthole for the development of the Far Western Development Region (FWDR) that has received the least development privilege, this project has been lingering for more than a [...]
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