{"id":95530,"date":"2026-07-16T10:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/?p=95530"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:15:05","slug":"nepal-india-power-trade-expands-export-capacity-to-reach-1650-mw-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/95530","title":{"rendered":"Nepal-India power trade expands, export capacity to reach 1,650 MW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Nepal and India have decided to export electricity from 1,100 MW to India to 1,650 MW and import capacity from 1,000 MW to 1,400 MW by expanding the inter-country transmission infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>The 13th meeting of the Nepal-India Energy Secretary-level Joint Directive Committee (JSC) held in Pokhara decided to expand the capacity of electricity through Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur and Dhalkebar-Sitamadi 400 kV transmission line, according to the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation. <\/p>\n<p>The meeting also approved the detailed project report (DPR) of the Chameliya (Nepal)-Jauljibi (India) 220 KV double circuit transmission line and set a target to complete it by December 2028. <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the government has also agreed to expedite the process of establishing joint venture (JV) between Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and Power Grid Corporation of India for the construction of 400 KV Inaruwa-New Purnia and Dodhodhara (New Lamki)-Bareilly 400 KV transmission line. <\/p>\n<p>The meeting also approved the DPR of Motihari-Nijgadh 400 KV double circuit transmission line as per the plan of exporting additional electricity by 2034\/35. The meeting also approved the proposal to expand the capacity of Muzaffarpur-Dhalkebar 400 kV transmission line using HTLS conductor. <\/p>\n<p>The ministry also decided to conduct further technical study on the feasibility of the Lucknow-Kohalpur\u00f7Lamahi 400 KV inter-country transmission line. The meeting also agreed to complete construction of Butwal-Gorakhpur 400 KV transmission line by August 2026 and new Butwal Substation will be completed by December 2027. <\/p>\n<p>Under this, 130 MW of electricity can be imported and up to 200 MW can be exported. According to the Ministry of Energy, the secretary-level meeting held a day ago discussed on the recommendations of the joint task force held a day ago and decided to make the expansion of inter-country transmission line, hydropower projects with Indian investment and import and export of electricity to Nepal and India more easy and effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Nepal and India have decided to export electricity from 1,100 MW to India to 1,650 MW and import capacity from 1,000 MW to 1,400 MW by expanding the inter-country transmission infrastructure. The 13th meeting of the Nepal-India Energy Secretary-level Joint Directive Committee (JSC) held in Pokhara decided to expand the capacity of electricity through<a href=\"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/95530\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Nepal-India power trade expands, export capacity to reach 1,650 MW&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":95527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"publishedDateNp":"\u0969\u0968 \u0905\u0938\u093e\u0930 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0969, \u092c\u093f\u0939\u0940\u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u0966:\u096b\u096d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95531,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95530\/revisions\/95531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/95527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}