Load shedding hours to increase

Owing to the rising power demands with the onset of winter even as supply has declined due to receding water flow in rivers, the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has decided to increase load shedding hours beginning Sunday.

According to reports, the NEA will clamp two and a half hours of load shedding everyday from Sunday.

Currently, each household has been facing six hours of load shedding a week, which will now increase to fifteen hours a week with each household enjoying a day without power cut in a week.

The new schedule also includes power cuts in morning time. The detailed schedule will be published soon, the NEA officials say.

NEA officials have said that they face demands for 720 MW power while they can supply only 480 MW at present.

The government expects load shedding woes can be lessened once it starts importing 40 MW of power from India from second week of January. nepalnews.com sd Jan 05 08

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