Load shedding to begin from Monday

The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is preparing to start load shedding in the current winter season from Monday.

According to Nepal Samacharpatra daily, the NEA will impose two and a half hours of load shedding every week for the time being. The NEA authorities claim that due to the onset of winter dry spell, it will lose around 80 MW of production capacity.

According to NEA, in the Kathmandu valley, every household will face two and a half hours of load shedding once a week between 5 pm till 7:30 pm. The load shedding time in rest of the country has been fixed as 5:30 pm till 8 pm. The NEA will change the time schedule and load shedding duration in the coming weeks based on the volume of demand and supply.

Since almost all of the hydro power projects in the country are of the run-of-the-river type, their production capacity drop significantly down when there is a dry spell and the snow-fed rivers lose their volume of water. There is only one storage type project – Kulekhani I & II – which generate around 92 MW of electricity. nepalnews.com sd Dec 02 06

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