ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND MAJOR HYDRO ELECTRICITY PROJECT OF NEPAL

ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND MAJOR HYDRO ELECTRICITY PROJECT OF NEPAL

Significance

Power assumes an indispensable part in the advanced world. The advancement of science and innovation has made our lives simple and agreeable. This would not have been conceivable without power.

We utilize power for different residential purposes. For instance: cooler, fax, broiler, warmer, and so forth. Businesses oblige apparatus and other overwhelming devices to create numerous produced merchandise. Power is an unquestionable requirement to run these hardware and overwhelming apparatuses.

Essentially, method for correspondence can't create without power. We can't even consider PC or TV without power. Without the method for correspondence the pace of human advancement will be moderate. At present the entire world is experiencing worldwide contamination. On the off chance that power is utilized to work the vehicles, the air contamination will be controlled.

There are different wellsprings of power. They are: water, petrol, diesel, sunlight based vitality, vapor, bio-gas and steam.

Power in Nepal

Nepal has tremendous possibility of delivering power. Nepal alone has around 6,000 of all shapes and sizes waterways. Being a precipitous nation it is depleted by numerous snow-bolstered quick streaming waterways. The streams like Koshi, Gandaki, Karnali, Rapti, Bheri, Mahakali, and so forth have awesome possibility of creating hydro-power.

On the off chance that we could saddle the potential water assets to deliver hydro-power, there is doubtlessly Nepal's economy will unquestionably rise. Numerous spots of Nepal, particularly, the remote and provincial zones are still in dimness. Wherever, the hydro-power is impractical, different assets to produce power must be used.

The bio-gas plant has ended up extremely well known among the villagers in country ranges particularly for local utilization. Wind force has been used in Kagbeni (Mustand) to produce power. In urban region individuals use sun powered vitality for sun oriented warmers. Other than water, different wellsprings of vitality are insufficient to run the commercial ventures and processing plants. To create Nepal, hydro-force is the most dependable wellspring of vitality.

Hydro-force was produced for the clench hand time in Nepal in 1965 BS amid the time of Chandra Shumsher. It had the limit of 500 KW and was situated close Pharping, south of Kathmandu. The second hydro-force station was created amid the time of Juddha Shumsher at Sundarijal in the north of Kathmandu, having the limit of 640 KW.

Nepal has the probability of delivering 83000 MW of hydro-power. Anyhow, just 390 MW of power has been created so distant from 50 of all shapes and sizes power creating ventures by the year 2057 BS.

The insights of evaluation 2058 demonstrates that what number of individuals of the nation use power on the premise of sorts of lights they utilize are as per the following:

S.No. - Types of Light - Number of Family - Percentage

S.No. - Types of Light ---------- Number of Family ----- Percentage
1. -- Electricity ------------------------------- 16,44,499 ----------------- 39.39
2. -- Kerosene Lamp ------------------------ 23,86,293 ----------------- 54.17
3. -- Bio Gas Light ------------------------------- 8,075 ------------------ 0.19
4. -- Other materials ---------------------------- 94,143 ------------------ 2.26
5. -- Unidentified ------------------------------- 41,446 ------------------- 0.99
---------- Total --------------------------------- 41,74,457 ------------------ 100
Source: Central Bureau of Statistics, 2058

Major Hydro Electricity Projects of Nepal (in KW)

S.NO. - Name of Station - Installed Capacity (KW) - Year of Completion in AD

1. - Sundarijal - 640 - - 1935

2. - Panauti - 2,400 - - 1965

3. - Trisuli - 24,000 - - 1967

4. - (Fewa) Pokhara - 1,088 - - 1967

5. - Sunkoshi - 10,050 - 1979

6. - Gandaki - 15,000 - 1979S.NO. - Name of Station --- Installed Capacity (KW) --- Year of Completion in AD

1. -- Sundarijal ------------------------ 640 --------------------------------- 1935
2. -- Panauti ------------------------ 2,400 --------------------------------- 1965
3. -- Trisuli ------------------------ 24,000 --------------------------------- 1967
4. -- (Fewa) Pokhara ---------------- 1,088 --------------------------------- 1967
5. -- Sunkoshi ---------------------- 10,050 -------------------------------- 1979
6. -- Gandaki ----------------------- 15,000 -------------------------------- 1979
7. -- Kulekhani I -------------------- 60,000 ------------------------------- 1982
8. -- Tinau (Butwal) ------------------ 1,024 ------------------------------- 1978
9. -- Devighat ----------------------- 14,100 ------------------------------- 1983
10. - Pokhara (Seti) ------------------ 1,500 ------------------------------- 1985
11. - Kulekhani II ------------------- 32,000 ------------------------------- 1986
12. - Marsyangdi ------------------- 69,000 -------------------------------- 1989
13. - Aandhaikhola ------------------ 5,100 --------------------------------- 1991
14. - Tatopani Myagdi I ------------- 1,000 --------------------------------- 1991
15. - Tatopani Myagdi II ------------ 1,000 --------------------------------- 1995
16. - Jhimruk Pyuthan ------------- 12,300 --------------------------------- 1995 
17. - Puwa Khola -------------------- 6,200 --------------------------------- 2000
18. - Khimti Khola ------------------ 6,000 --------------------------------- 2000
19. - Modi Khola ------------------- 14,800 --------------------------------- 2001
20. - Bhote Koshi ------------------ 36,000 --------------------------------- 2002
21. - Indrawati ---------------------- 7,500 --------------------------------- 2003
22. - Chilime ----------------------- 20,000 -------------------------------- 2003
23. - Kali Gandaki ‘A’ ------------- 1,44,000 -------------------------------- 2003
24. - Middle Marsyangdi ------------ 70,000 ------------------------------- 2008
---------------Source: Central Bureau of Statistics ----------------

The administration has urged privately owned businesses to put resources into hydro-force undertaking to satisfy the developing requests.

Issues of Electricity in Nepal

a. Absence of money to introduce power generators.

b. Absence of open mindfulness, prompting reckless utilization and utilization.

c. Spillage and taking.

d. Absence of specialized labor.

e. Absence of usage for better reason.

f. Not able to supply power to remote territories.

Arrangements

a. To make the individuals mindful of the utilization and sparing of power.

b. To stop power spillages and taking.

c. To produce more specialized labor.

d. To create commercial ventures taking into account power.

e. To give power in rustic and remote regions.