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Large Solar Power Plant To Mitigate Power Shortage In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
March 26, 2012: promoting clean energy in a large scale to mitigate the ongoing power outage, the Ministry of Energy has recently awarded a license for conducting a survey on a 50 MW solar power plant to the People’s Development and Power Tech Company (PDPT); after a thorough study of the documents submitted by the company, the Ministry has given license at the recommendation of the Department of Energy Development (DoED) to install a 50 MW solar-power plant at Manungdanda, Jamune VDC of the Tanahu district ‘The Rising Nepal’ of March 25, 2012 reports. The area has 10-hour sunlight every day. If the parties involved in the project meet their obligations and the project site becomes feasible, the power plant is built, power generation begins in 24- 28 months.
Concerning the cost, the DoED official said per unit cost of power generation will be higher than that of the hydro-electricity but will less than the power generated by a diesel plant. The local company PDPT jointly with the PIA Spanish Company and BAES of Bangladesh will invest in building this solar power plant in Nepal. The estimated cost of power generation per megawatt by the solar power plant will be Rs 350-500 million rupees in comparison to Rs 150 to 200 million by hydropower plants. The total estimated cost of a 50 MW solar power would be Rs 17.50 billion. The solar power plant will be following the sunlight converting into heat for creating steam to run the conventional steam turbines for generating power.
Whether the lawmakers belonging to the opposition parties such as NC and CPN-UML will come to argue against it in public remains to be seen. If they come out against this solar power plant certainly they would be anti-national means anti-people.
