Boland Hydropower

 T he Investment Board Nepal this week approved foreign investment worth Rs97 billion for two hydropower projects, the 285MW Tamor and 139.2MW Lower Manang on the Marsyangdi. India’s SJVN is also being issued a survey permit for a detailed feasibility study of the 679MW Lower Arun project in Sankhuwasabha. Likewise, the meeting directed the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation to improve the laws to address the ambiguity regarding the survey permission for the Tamor Reservoir Hydropower Project (756 MW). It also formed a committee to study and prepare a blueprint for the development and investment of the West Seti and SR-6 joint hydropower projects.

  All units of the Wudongde Hydropower Station will officially be put into operation on Wednesday, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 30.5 million tons per year, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Wednesday.  Becoming the seventh largest hydropower station in the world with the largest single unit capacity in operation, the power station is equipped with a capacity of 10.20 million kilowatts, CCTV reported, adding that the annual growth rate will reach 38.91 billion kilowatt-hours once the hydropower station being fully put into operation, the equivalent of saving 12.20 million tons of standard coal and reducing 30.50 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year.  Wudongde Hydropower Station is designed as a concrete double-curved arch dam with a maximum height of 270 meters. The foundation bed of the dam is only 51.41 meters thick, which makes the hydropower station the thinnest 300-meter arch dam in the world at present. The first series generator sets were put into

  Tunnel construction of 140MW Tanahun Hydropower Project in Nepal has been completed.The hydropower project is being built in Jhaputar of Rishing Rural Municipality, Tanahun.  According to project Chief Achyutbabu Ghimire, construction of 2.5-km access road from Byas Municipality, Chapaghat, to the project site has already been completed. "We are very glad to have completed this challenging task of tunnel road construction. Completion of these roads have now made it easier for us to start dam construction," said Ghimire.Further, Ghimire said they were able to complete a significant portion of the project as they continued the work even during the COVID crisis.Earlier, the project had suffered some early hiccups due to delay in selecting the contractor and then scrapping the existing contractor and selecting a new one. The project chief said they had adopted all safety health measures to make sure that no worker got infected. Some 45 staffers of the project and the consultant