Myagdi. Construction of the 6.5-megawatt Darkhola Hydropower Project has begun in Kunouta, Muna, Dhawalagiri Rural Municipality-3, Myagdi. Construction of other structures has begun after the access road to the dam site of the project, promoted by Darkhola Hydropower Limited.
Resham Bahadur Bhandari, Chairman of Darkhola Hydropower, said that construction of a road has begun to make a place for placing penstock pipes from Kunouta towards the power house.
A two-kilometer stretch of unpaved road has been constructed from Kunouta to the right bank of Darkhola towards the foothills of Dar village to place penstock pipes. Three dozers have been mobilized. Chairman Bhandari said that a three-kilometer, one-hundred-meter-long penstock pipeline will be installed to carry water to the power house to be built in Solwang.
The electricity generated by dropping water from a height of 548 meters to the power house will be connected to the national transmission system by building a seven-kilometer-long transmission line to the Dadakhet substation. The infrastructure construction has begun after completing the feasibility study, initial environmental impact assessment, power purchase agreement, land purchase, and financial resource management.
The schedule for generating electricity is within Falgun 2083 BS. It is estimated that about Rs. one billion will be invested in the construction of this run-of-the-river (river flow-based) project.
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