Good News: Load-Shedding reduced to 24 Hrs/week

Owing to lesser electricity demand than what had been forecasted for the last one month period, which led to the saving of considerable volume of water in the reservoir feeding the two Kulekhani projects in Makawanpur district, Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is reducing nationwide load-shedding by 16 hours per week effective from Wednesday.

 

There  will be no load-shedding during nights from Wednesday, while the daytime load-shedding will remain constant. This means every consumer will face only 24 hours of load-shedding per week from tomorrow, as opposed to 40 hours per week they had been facing, officially speaking.

 

Lower demand than what had been expected for the month of Falgun conserved approximately six meters of water in the Kulekhani reservoir. The reservoir feeds the two Kulekhani projects that have a total capacity of 92 megawatts and are the only storage projects in the country.

 

Weeks of violence in terai, which led to suspension of activities in various industrial towns in the southern belt, contributed to saving of power - one of the major factors behind the reduction in load-shedding hours.

Additionally, the 70-megawatt Marsyangdi project that had been shut two weeks ago for repairs of a draft tube at its tailrace has resumed operation from Tuesday.