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40 megawatt electricity trade with Bangladesh from coming monsoon

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Kathmandu – The Nepal government has started the final process of exporting 40 megawatts of electricity to Bangladesh from the coming monsoon.

The Economic Affairs Committee of the Bangladesh Council of Ministers decided to purchase 40 megawatts of electricity from Nepal on last December. According to the said decision, Bangladesh had sent a letter to Nepal to send a proposal for sale by prioritizing the price. After the correspondence from Bangladesh, the official of Nepal Electricity Authority has gone to Bangladesh with the tariff rate.”Bangladesh will send a reply based on our proposal,” Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Shakti Bahadur Basnet said.

Kulman Ghisingh, Executive Director of Electricity Authority, said that since the business is going to be done with Bangladesh for the first time, the reasonable price has been offered. “We have sent a proposal that is close to the rate we are doing with India,” he said. Ghising says that an engineer from the Electricity Trade Department sent from Nepal will register the sealed file with the price in the Power Development Board of Bangladesh within 4 days. If something has to be arranged, we will arrange it, otherwise there will be an agreement,” he said.

Bangladesh will take Nepal’s electricity using Indian transmission lines. In the Nepal-India secretary level meeting held last February, India has already said that it will send the name of the project and allow it. According to the authority, the power trading with Bangladesh will be done through the Indian power trading company NTPC Vidyut Vyar Nigam. Ghisingh, executive director of the authority, said that the necessary understanding for a tripartite agreement has been reached with NTPC Electricity Trading Corporation, Nepal Electricity Authority and Power Development Board of Bangladesh.

‘After the tripartite agreement, Nepal will export electricity to Bangladesh via India,’ he said, ‘Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Nepal’s electricity will reach Bangladesh from the coming monsoon.’
Electricity will be sold to Bangladesh by paying a ‘billing charge’ to India. The fee paid for using the transmission line is the ‘Billing Charge and the billing charge will be paid by Bangladesh. Recently, a long-term electricity trade agreement has been signed with India to export 10,000 megawatts of electricity in 10 years.

Charging stations for EVs to be established in collaboration with APF

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A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Armed Police Force and the Nepal Electricity Authority regarding the construction and operation of an electric vehicle charging station.

The MoU was signed by Inspector General Raju Aryal on behalf of the Armed Police Force and Executive Director Kulman Ghising on behalf of the Authority in a program held at the Armed Police Headquarters Halchok on Friday.

According to the MoU, charging stations will be established at 17 locations including 2 petrol pumps currently operated by the Armed Police Welfare Center and 15 suitable locations of Armed Police offices. The charging station will be operated under the welfare fund in the long run.

According to the MoU, the authority will purchase all the equipment and build the infrastructure of the charging station at its own expense. Repair and regular servicing of the equipment will also be done by the authority itself. The Armed Police will provide a suitable location for the construction of the infrastructure and after construction, will operate and protect the charging station. It has been arranged that charging stations cannot be allowed to be operated by third parties/organizations.

While operating the charging station, the authority should make arrangements to allow the general public to use it easily at the rate determined by the authority. The authority will collect the fee paid by the consumer while charging the vehicle. According to the provisions of the Electricity Distribution Regulations, the Welfare Center of the Armed Police will receive 50 percent of the total profit from the electricity tariff rate as operating and management expenses of the charging station.

The authority is constructing the stations that can charge quickly at 51 locations across the country to encourage the use of electric vehicles. Every charging station being constructed by the authority will be equipped with a 142 kW charger, a 50 kVA transformer for power supply, and an online billing system.

Fast charging 60 kilowatt DC and 22 kilowatt AC chargers will be placed at the charging station. With this, three vehicles including a big bus can be charged simultaneously.

The software of the charging station will be kept in the authority’s data center which can serve more than 300 chargers. All 50 stations will be controlled from Kathmandu. After charging the vehicle, the customer can pay the bill through the QR code and mobile app.

Earlier,A memorandum of understanding has already been signed between the Authority and the Nepal Police to establish charging stations at 25 different places.

Income of Rs 1.72 billion in one month from electricity export

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The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has earned Rs 1.72 billion by selling electricity in the Indian market in the last one month(June 2-June 30) .


NEA, which has been allowed to sell 364 MW of electricity in the Indian market, has been selling the surplus electricity in the Indian market through six hydropower projects.NEA Executive Director Kulman Ghising also said that the export of electricity is projected to be around Rs 5 billion in the current fiscal year and Rs 20 billion in the coming year.