Substations built in Tanahun for rural electrification

KATHMANDU: Tanahun Hydropower Project is building a substation to facilitate electrification in different rural areas of Tanahun district.

The Project Management Directorate of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) – the parent company of Tanahun Hydrpower Project – awarded the contract to implement Tanahun Rural Electrification and Distribution System Strengthening Project to East India Industry/Waiba/Infratech JV in 2018.  The total cost of the contract is $6.15 million, according to Kiran Kumar Shrestha, managing director of Tanahun Hydropower Limited. The contractor company has completed the survey and design works and is currently building 33 and 11 KV LT transmission lines.

According to Shrestha, construction has been completed in Ghiring Rural Municipality-4 and Bandipur Rural Municipality-6. A power transformer of 6/8 MVA capacity has been installed in Ghiring, and three feeder lines of 11 KV have been installed for power supply. A total of 11 KV feeder lines have also been arranged for the backup.

Electricity has been supplied to the entire area of Bhimad Municipality and Ghiring Rural Municipality, as well as some parts of Rishing Rural Municipality and Nawalparasi East from the substation at Ghiring. Similarly, the substation at Saranghat in Bandipur-6 has been supplying electricity to Anbukhareni, Bandipur, and Devghat Rural Municipality.

The project has installed transformers of various capacities and built 11 KV lines to improve electricity supply in different parts of Tanahun district. According to Shrestha, the project aims to complete all works under rural electrification in the next fiscal year.

The project is being implemented with the investment of the Government of Nepal, NEA  as well as a subsidized loan from the Asian Development Bank.