#Nepal

Land acquisition to construct a transmission line for Nepal’s largest hydropower project, Arun-III, has been initiated from Dhanusha.

Detailed project report of the first Nepal-China 80 km Galchhi-Rasuwagadhi-Kyirong 400 kVA high-voltage cross-border transmission line is about to be completed.

The construction works of substations at Sunwal of Nawalparasi and Bhandara of Chitwan are finalizing. Tata Project Limited will operate it by mid-April.

Nepal: The 220 kV double circuit Trishuli-Kathmandu transmission line, Nepal’s first partially underground power line, is all set to come online in May.

Nepal: Upper Tamakoshi Hydropower Company, a subsidiary of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and the developer of the Upper Tamakoshi Hydropower Project, has completed construction of over 80 percent of the 220 kV Gongor-Khimti Transmission Line Project, reports Kathmandu Post.

Nepal, Kathmandu: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has announced an international tender for two substations on a turnkey basis.

Nepal, Kathmandu: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), the state-owned power utility, may soon import up to 220 MW of additional electricity from India.

Nepal: A huge increase in electricity demand in the past few months has taken a toll over the distribution mechanism of Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur districts in Nepal, with the state-owned utility Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) running out of stock of transformers.

Nepal, Rautahat: Two people died and 18 were injured in a power transformer explosion that took place in Makawanpur district, Nepal yesterday morning.

Nepal, Kathmandu: The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has received the first delivery of 253 power transformers from LTL Holding of Sri Lanka under a contract signed for the purchase of 1,040 transformers.