Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is going to increase load-shedding period 12 hours a day shortly.
The NEA said that increasing load-shedding would reach 10-12 hours a day this winter, which will go up to 7-8 hours a day (51.5 hours a week) from Wednesday.
However, there will be little relief for the people compared to the 16-hour (108 hours per week) long power outage a day last year.
Danda Pani Bashyal, director of the NEA, said that the NEA was compelled to extend the power outage because of the massive reduction of power generation due to gradually decreasing the label of water in the river. The NEA did not able to generate power as per their capacity due to decrease the label of water in the river, he said.
He said that the country currently had more than 250 MW deficits, around 754-MW electricity demands every day but the NEA was supplying around 469 MW a day. Out of total supply, the NEA was importing around 85 mw electricity from India .
Bashyal said the consumers would face power outage 51.5 hour a week where they face power cut seven hours for five days, eight hours for one day and eight and a half hours for a day. The consumers have been facing around 28 hour power outage a week recently.
He said that the time of load-shedding would possibly increase and reach around 10 to 12 hours a day this year.
He, however, said that the NEA was thinking seriously to decrease load-shedding hours and they would try their best to cut the power outage hours if there was enough power.
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