Kathmandu, August 17
Nepal’s biggest power substation in Dhalkebar of Dhanusha district, near the Nepal-India border, has come into operation since last night, informs Nepal Electricity Authority.
The substation is expected to facilitate two-way power trade between the two neighbours. It can import and export electricity from 270 to 300 megawatt.
Currently, Nepal has been importing electricity from India, but it expects to export power during the monsoon season from next year.
The Authority’s Managing Director Kul Man Ghising says the stations has been charged from 11 pm last night.
“This is a milestone for the improvement in internal transmission system and power trade between the two countries,” he says, adding, “We are also constructing another substation of 400/220 KV in Dhalkebar and it will be over in next one and half years.”
The Authority’s spokesperson and Trade Department head Prabal Adhikari says completion of the construction of substation means all infrastructures for import and export of power from and to India are ready.
He claims Nepal will begin selling electricity to India once the construction of Upper Tamakoshi Hydropower Project will be over.
Operations of the substation can be monitored from the Kathmandu-based Load Dispatch Centre.
The government and the Authority had invested in the project whereas the World Bank had provided a subsidised loan.
