{"id":272320,"date":"2025-10-09T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/energy-minister-ghising-demands-7-demands-for-flood-hit-hydropower-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:51:25","slug":"energy-minister-ghising-demands-7-demands-for-flood-hit-hydropower-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/energy-minister-ghising-demands-7-demands-for-flood-hit-hydropower-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Minister Ghising demands 7 demands for flood-hit hydropower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The Independent Power Producers&#8217; Association, Nepal (IPPAN) has demanded various relief packages for flood-affected hydropower projects. <\/p>\n<p>In a meeting with Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Kulman Ghising on Wednesday, IPPAN Chair Ganesh Karki said that the government should announce relief package for the reconstruction of flood-damaged hydropower projects. Chairman Karki also said that the relief package should be brought keeping in mind the date for resumption of power generation (RCOD), license period, loan reschedule, long-term financing and customs duty waiver, among other issues. <\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Energy Minister Ghising pledged to take initiatives to provide relief to the flood-affected projects. He also said that the problems related to forest-related energy projects would be presented in the upcoming cabinet meeting for resolution. <\/p>\n<p>Out of 20 hydropower projects in operation due to the extremely heavy rains that occurred from October 3 to 19, 17 hydropower projects with capacity of 135 MW have completely halted their production while three projects of 156 MW have been partially affected. Similarly, 17 hydropower projects with a capacity of 520 MW under construction have also been damaged. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">TAG_OPEN_strong_18 Here are the demands put forth by IPPAN to the Energy Minister<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Provision should be made to import machinery and equipment required for reconstruction and maintenance of flood-affected projects at 1 percent customs duty. <\/li>\n<li> RCOD period of flood-damaged under-construction projects should be extended by 3 years and license period should be extended by 5 years. <\/li>\n<li> Provision should be made for loan rescheduling and refinancing of flood-affected projects. <\/li>\n<li> Arrangements should be made for the issue of stalled IPOs and right shares of flood-affected projects at the earliest. <\/li>\n<li> Necessary policy decisions should be taken by declaring hydropower projects damaged by natural disasters as crisis-threatened. <\/li>\n<li> Provision of long-term financing for flood-affected projects. <\/li>\n<li>FY 2082. 83 to 2084. If electricity is not generated within 85 years, the provision of automatically converting to take-and-pay PPA should be scrapped. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The Independent Power Producers&#8217; Association, Nepal (IPPAN) has demanded various relief packages for flood-affected hydropower projects. In a meeting with Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Kulman Ghising on Wednesday, IPPAN Chair Ganesh Karki said that the government should announce relief package for the reconstruction of flood-damaged hydropower projects. Chairman Karki also said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":272318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45212,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hydropower-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/272318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}