32 May, Kathmandu. The third largest Hetaunda substation of 400 KV capacity has come into operation.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda inaugurated the substation during a program organized on Friday.
Nepal Electricity Authority has constructed a substation of 400 KV capacity in Hetounda sub-metropolitan city of Makwanpur-11 Thanabharyang.
Nepal’s third largest 400 KV Hetaunda substation, based on gas insulated system (GIS) technology, has been completed and put into operation (charged) from last Friday.
The construction of 220 and 132/11 KV substations in Thanabharyang itself has been completed and charged from the Nepal-India Electricity Transmission and Trade Project.
Built for reliable and quality east-west electricity supply within the country and for electricity trade with India, Dhalkebar is the country’s first automatic Dhalkebar substation, Inaruwa is the second and Hetaunda is the third largest substation in the country.
With the completion of the construction of Hetaunda substation, the infrastructure structure capable of supplying about 4,000 megawatts of electricity has been prepared, the authority said.
After the completion of the Hetaunda-Dhalkebar-Inruwa 400 KV transmission line project, 4000 megawatts of electricity can be transmitted from Dhalkebar to the east-west.
The 400 KV double circuit transmission line to be constructed from Ratmate in Nuwakot by the American aid project Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) will be connected to Hetaunda substation. For this, the necessary infrastructure has been constructed at Hetaunda substation.
Hetaunda, Dhalkebar Inruwa 400 KV substation expansion project was started under the National Electricity Development Decade Program with the joint investment of the government and the authority. All three substations under the project have been completed.
The December 2018 contract was awarded for the construction of Hetaunda 400 KV substation.
A contract agreement was signed in December 2018 for the construction of 220/132/11 KV Hetaunda substation, which was built by the Nepal India Electricity Transmission and Trade Project with the investment of the government and the authority and the concessional loan of the World Bank. The estimated cost of 400, 220 and 132 KV Hetaunda substations is three billion rupees.
