{"id":13717,"date":"2017-07-15T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T05:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techlekh.com\/?p=13717"},"modified":"2017-07-15T11:47:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T06:02:45","slug":"nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/","title":{"rendered":"NEA to Increase Power Import from India to Avoid Load-shedding in Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13909\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/electricity\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"810,469\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D7100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1397683517&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity-490x315.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13909\" src=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg\" alt=\"electricity\" width=\"810\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg 810w, https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity-50x29.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is going to increase its import of electricity from India. This decision was taken after its plan to purchase 20 million LED bulbs to decrease electricity became uncertain; a case about the issue is currently sub-judice at the Supreme Court. So, it has to import more power to avoid load shedding in the coming winter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NEA says that it has sufficient electricity for the rainy season as the water level has gone up in most of the rivers. But, it needs to prepare for the winter season.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Nepal is importing\u00a0250 megawatt electricity from India. The current amount is 75 megawatt less than the average import during the same season last year.<\/p>\n<p>Prabal Adhikari, NEA spokesperson, said that Chameliya Hydropower Project will begin generating 30 megawatt power from early October and it will also give some relief to the NEA.<\/p>\n<p>Private projects are helpful but most of the private projects in Nepal are run-off-the-river and will not produce much power during the winter season.<\/p>\n<p>So, NEA will have to import more power from India this winter season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is going to increase its import of electricity from India. This decision was taken after its plan to purchase 20 million LED bulbs to decrease electricity became uncertain; a case about the issue is currently sub-judice at the Supreme Court. So, it has to import more power to avoid load shedding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":13909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[2240,1614,275,2760],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NEA to Increase Power Import from India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NEA to Increase Power Import from India\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is going to increase its import of electricity from India. This decision was taken after its plan to purchase 20 million LED bulbs to decrease electricity became uncertain; a case about the issue is currently sub-judice at the Supreme Court. So, it has to import more power to avoid load shedding&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TechLekh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/techlekh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-07-15T05:58:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-07-15T06:02:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"810\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"469\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Prakriti Tuladhar\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@techlekh\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@techlekh\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Prakriti Tuladhar\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Prakriti Tuladhar\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/16d1eaa985585d0ab1a1b088be1686f4\"},\"headline\":\"NEA to Increase Power Import from India to Avoid Load-shedding in Winter\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-07-15T05:58:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-07-15T06:02:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/\"},\"wordCount\":190,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"electricity\",\"NEA\",\"news\",\"power\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"Telecom\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/\",\"name\":\"NEA to Increase Power Import from India\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-07-15T05:58:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-07-15T06:02:45+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg\",\"width\":\"810\",\"height\":\"469\",\"caption\":\"Electricity\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/category\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"NEA to Increase Power Import from India to Avoid Load-shedding in Winter\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/\",\"name\":\"TechLekh\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"TechLekh Services\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TechLekh-Logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TechLekh-Logo.png\",\"width\":\"960\",\"height\":\"960\",\"caption\":\"TechLekh Services\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/techlekh\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/techlekh\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tech.lekh\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/techlekh\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC39jkGSGKWB1Y-9pY5-8Irw\",\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@tech.lekh\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/16d1eaa985585d0ab1a1b088be1686f4\",\"name\":\"Prakriti Tuladhar\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f3139900e9201c1906916dc8934afbe?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f3139900e9201c1906916dc8934afbe?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Prakriti Tuladhar\"},\"description\":\"Prakriti Shree Tuladhar is a writer at Techlekh and a student at Deerwalk Institute of Technology. Prior to Techlekh, she was involved with DwitNews where she worked as an editor. She covers startups, interviews and events in the website. She's particularly interested to write about startups as she loves the will and spirit in new companies and looks forward to promoting them and learning from them.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/author\/prakriti\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NEA to Increase Power Import from India","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"NEA to Increase Power Import from India","og_description":"Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is going to increase its import of electricity from India. This decision was taken after its plan to purchase 20 million LED bulbs to decrease electricity became uncertain; a case about the issue is currently sub-judice at the Supreme Court. So, it has to import more power to avoid load shedding&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/","og_site_name":"TechLekh","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/techlekh","article_published_time":"2017-07-15T05:58:28+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-07-15T06:02:45+00:00","og_image":[{"width":810,"height":469,"url":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Prakriti Tuladhar","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@techlekh","twitter_site":"@techlekh","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Prakriti Tuladhar","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/"},"author":{"name":"Prakriti Tuladhar","@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/16d1eaa985585d0ab1a1b088be1686f4"},"headline":"NEA to Increase Power Import from India to Avoid Load-shedding in Winter","datePublished":"2017-07-15T05:58:28+00:00","dateModified":"2017-07-15T06:02:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/"},"wordCount":190,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg","keywords":["electricity","NEA","news","power"],"articleSection":["News","Telecom"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/","url":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/","name":"NEA to Increase Power Import from India","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg","datePublished":"2017-07-15T05:58:28+00:00","dateModified":"2017-07-15T06:02:45+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg","width":"810","height":"469","caption":"Electricity"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/nea-to-increase-power-import-from-india\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/category\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"NEA to Increase Power Import from India to Avoid Load-shedding in Winter"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/","name":"TechLekh","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#organization","name":"TechLekh Services","url":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TechLekh-Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TechLekh-Logo.png","width":"960","height":"960","caption":"TechLekh Services"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/techlekh","https:\/\/x.com\/techlekh","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tech.lekh\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/techlekh\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC39jkGSGKWB1Y-9pY5-8Irw","https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@tech.lekh"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/16d1eaa985585d0ab1a1b088be1686f4","name":"Prakriti Tuladhar","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f3139900e9201c1906916dc8934afbe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f3139900e9201c1906916dc8934afbe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Prakriti Tuladhar"},"description":"Prakriti Shree Tuladhar is a writer at Techlekh and a student at Deerwalk Institute of Technology. Prior to Techlekh, she was involved with DwitNews where she worked as an editor. She covers startups, interviews and events in the website. She's particularly interested to write about startups as she loves the will and spirit in new companies and looks forward to promoting them and learning from them.","url":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/author\/prakriti\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/electricity.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13717"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13915,"href":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717\/revisions\/13915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techlekh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}