Kathmandu: Nepal and India propose to construct at least six cross-border power corridors to ensure trading in energy between the two close neighbours on a long-term basis.These 400-kV lines will be constructed on the Attariya-Uttarakhand, Lamki-Tikuniya, Kohalpur-Rupaidiha, Butwal-Gorakhpur, Muzaffarpur-Dhalkebar and Inaruwa-Bihar corridors.A six-member joint technical team formed to prepare a master plan for such power corridors identified the six points on the Nepal-India border in accordance with the Power Trade Agreement (PTA) signed in 2014.The energy secretaries of Nepal and India are scheduled to meet in Kathmandu on Wednesday and Thursday to approve the master plan prepared by this technical team, Nepal’s Energy Ministry said here.Nepal has a huge hydropower potential — theoretically estimated at 83,000 MW — with the perennial nature of Nepali rivers and the steep gradient of the country’s topography providing ideal conditions for the development of some of the world’s largest hydroelectric projects in the Himalayan nation.
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