Nepal has resumed exporting 40 megawatts of electricity to Bangladesh through India's transmission network, the Nepal Electricity Authority said, after supplies were suspended following flood damage in August. The export resumed on Friday evening, Himalaya Post and NewKerala reported.

Source: Himalaya Post

Exports had been disrupted after floods in the Trishuli River, triggered by a flash flood in the Bhotekoshi River in Rasuwa on August 26, damaged the Trishuli and Chilime hydropower plants, which had been approved to supply Bangladesh. The disruption also partially affected electricity exports to India's Haryana state, the reports said.

NEA Managing Director Dirghayu Kumar Shrestha said the resumption was possible after India's Central Electricity Authority authorised electricity generated by alternative hydropower plants for export to Bangladesh. Under the revised arrangement, electricity from the Solu Khola and Kabeli B1 plants has been approved for supply to Bangladesh, while the Lower Modi Khola plant has been cleared to supply Haryana, replacing the previous designations for the Trishuli, Chilime and Devighat plants, the Kathmandu Post reported via TOB News.

Source: Himalaya Post

Meanwhile, the NEA said Nepal exported more than 633.98 million units of electricity to India during Ashoj (mid-September to mid-October), earning Rs 5.925 billion — Rs 962 million more than in the same month last year and Rs 832.5 million more than in the previous month. Total electricity export transactions in the first three months of the current fiscal year reached Rs 16.1513 billion, according to the NEA's Load Dispatch Centre. About two-thirds of exports to India were sold under bilateral agreements with Haryana and Bihar, with the remainder traded through the Indian Energy Exchange's day-ahead and real-time markets, Himalaya Post reported. Under a 2024 five-year agreement, Nepal supplies 40 MW to Bangladesh each year from June 15 to November 15.