The government’s efforts to limit load-shedding hours have gone in vain, with the Nepal Electricity Authority ( NEA ) increasing daily power outage making it to seven hours/ day from Sunday.
The NEA said it was forced to hike the power outage hours as India is changing the cable of Kusaha-Kataiya transmission line. Nepal is importing 80 MW electricity from the Kusaha-Kataiya transmission line and it needs two more weeks to wrap up the work, NEA sources confirmed.
Last winter, Nepal had imported up to 145MW electricity from India, when load-shedding had reached up to 16 hours a day. For this winter, the government had planned early construction of the 400KV Dhalkebar-Mujjaffapur cross-border transmission line, generating 40MW energy from diesel plants, importing 200MW additional energy from India and purchasing electricity from captive plants of local industrial units.However, not even a single plan has so far been implemented properly. Currently, the NEA has been imposing daily four-hour power outage.
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