{"id":2114,"date":"2024-05-17T12:08:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T06:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2024-05-17T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T06:24:32","slug":"pm-prachanda-says-country-exporting-10000-megawatts-of-electricity-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/pm-prachanda-says-country-exporting-10000-megawatts-of-electricity-in-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Prachanda says country exporting 10,000 megawatts of electricity in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, May 17: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal &#8216;Prachanda&#8217; has asked the private sector to invest in the country&#8217;s hydropower sector with confidence stating that an agreement has been signed with India to export 10,000 megawatts of power from Nepal in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the 22nd annual general assembly of Independent Power Producers&#8217; Association, Nepal (IPPAN) here today, the PM said the moment to export 10,000 megawatts of power will be a historical achievement for the country&#8217;s journey to prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have signed the long-term agreement with neighbouring country India for the export of 10,000 megawatts of electricity in 10 years. Likewise, power trade will be done with Bangladesh via India&#8217;s transmission line. Such an important opportunity to sign the deal is created during my premiership. This is a historic success in terms of commitment to prosperity journey and campaign not only in the area of Nepal&#8217;s hydroelectricity sector,&#8221; the PM stated.<\/p>\n<p>The PM also expressed confidence that an agreement will be signed even with Bangladesh soon to export Nepal&#8217;s electricity.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, the PM shared that the government was promoting different programmes to increase power consumption in the domestic market besides the power export.<\/p>\n<p>He said the government is considering to promote electric vehicles and appliances to reduce the import of petroleum products and increase the domestic consumption of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, the PM viewed electricity is the most important sector for the country&#8217;s development and prosperity, and appreciated the role of the private sector in scaling up power production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 17: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal &#8216;Prachanda&#8217; has asked the private sector to invest in the country&#8217;s hydropower sector with confidence stating that an agreement has been signed with India to export 10,000 megawatts of power from Nepal in a decade. Addressing the 22nd annual general assembly of Independent Power Producers&#8217; Association, Nepal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}