Groundbreaking Deal

Boosted by domestic and foreign investment, Nepal’s hydropower development has gained pace in recent years. Building hydropower infrastructure remains crucial for the production, transmission and distribution of electricity. Transmission lines are vital to supply produced power to the consumers but it requires a large amount of investment. In the absence of transmission lines, it has become difficult to supply electricity uninterruptedly. But Nepal has been in dire need of huge investment. It is only the state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) that has been constructing the transmission lines. There have been legal hurdles for the private companies to build transmission lines.