Nepal power outage: Nepal urges 90 MW power from Bihar
Nepal, January 29: The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) urged Bihar government to supply an additional 90 Mega Watt (MW) of power from Bihar.
Nepal is currently facing power deficit and the power is been importing from India.
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To deal with this power deficit NEA has had to cut power Birgunj region and Bara-Parsa industrial corridor for over a month now. And the low capacity of the Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur transmission line to Birgunj is making the transmission of power more difficult, according to the Kathmandu Post Nepal's leading English-language daily.
The current import of power by Nepal is done from Bihar through Raxaul and Ramnagar areas.
The report said that the power output capacity of Nepal's power project is 2200 MW. However, most of these projects are run-of-the-river type so they are able to produce 40 per cent lesser power in the country's dry season from December to April.
This has reduced the total power output of Nepal by 800 MW where the current power demand in the country is at 1683 MW.
Nepal and India are currently have a power exchange setup in a place where both country can buy and sell power. However, Nepal and India have scheduled a meeting of the joint secretary, Joint Working Group and the secretary-level Joint Steering Committee where the upgradation of the cross border transmission line is to be discussed in February this year.
The price has been fixed at IRs6.18 per unit for taking power through the 132kV transmission line and Rs6.65 for buying electricity through the 33kV transmission line.
Although this is not the first time that India has been requested by Nepal to supply power prior to this Nepal had requested power in March last year also but India had to decline the request because of a coal shortage due to Russia Ukraine conflict.
- ANI
