Nepal has stopped exporting electricity to India due to dry season.
Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has stopped export of electricity as it has stopped producing excess electricity due to the start of the dry season, confirmed NEA spokesperson Suresh Bahadur Bhattarai.
“NEA is likely to stop exporting electricity until the 2023 monsoon” he said, adding that the NEA had been exporting electricity to India since May 15 through the Indian Energy Exchange Ltd. “NEA has sold electricity worth Rs 11 billion during this period.”
As the flow of water in the rivers is decreasing due to dry season, the production of electricity from hydropower stations – based on river flow – has also decreased forcing the state electricity monopoly to stop export.
The NEA has, currently, received permission to export up to 409 megawatts (MW) of electricity produced by eight hydropower stations of Nepal to India.
Due to electricity exports to India Nepal has earned Rs 10.38 billion during the first five-and-a-half months. Nepal started exporting power to India this June. According to NEA, some 1.26 billion units of surplus electricity were exported to India, earning Rs 10.389 billion in revenue by mid-November.
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