India is going to buy an additional 200 megawatts of electricity from Nepal. The Central Electricity Authority under the Ministry of Electricity of India has approved the Haryana state to import electricity of that quantity as per the interim agreement.

Nepal Electricity Authority spokesperson Rajan Dhakal confirmed that approval has been received for the export of 199.70 megawatts of electricity from six hydropower projects in Nepal according to the mid-term agreement. "India has given permission to export 199.70 megawatts of electricity," he said, "Earlier, India had given permission to export electricity of 941 megawatts." Nepal now exports 1140.70 MW of electricity.' 

The authority will now sell 435.2 MW of electricity to the state of Haryana alone. It is already selling 235.5 MW electricity to Haryana. According to the interim agreement, electricity will be sold to Haryana for four years.

According to the authority, the surplus electricity consumed in Nepal will be sold to Bihar and Haryana every year from June to October. An agreement has been reached to sell an additional 199.70 megawatts of electricity every year from June 15 to the end of October, Dhakal said. He said that the selling rate of electricity to be sold till next October is 8 rupees 72 paise (5.45 bharu) per unit. 

last year 125.89 megawatt electricity sales rate was 8 rupees 72 paise per unit. The per unit rate of 109 MW approved for sale to Haryana last year was Rs 8 40 paisa (5.25 bharu). According to the Authority, all taxes and fees including transmission line fee, leakage, trading margin towards India will not be borne.

The authority says that 125.004 megawatts of electricity produced by 10 hydropower projects in the country is being sold to Bihar. The authority said that Nepal is exporting the electricity to Bihar through 132 KV transmission lines of Kataiya, Raxaul and Ramnagar. The authority has been exporting the electricity consumed in the country and saved during the rainy season to India. India's Energy Exchange (IX) is selling electricity to Haryana and Bihar states at competitive rates in real-time market and day-ahead market and under mid-term power contracts. 

Now 1140.70 MW electricity produced by 34 projects will be sold in the Indian market. In addition to this, the authority said that there is an arrangement to sell an additional 10 percent of electricity. During the dry season, the flow of water in the river decreases and the electricity production from the river-flowing hydropower plants in the country decreases, so it is imported from India. 

Nepal has imported electricity worth 12.92 billion 31 lakh rupees from India in the financial year 2081/82. During the same period, electricity worth 17 billion 459 million rupees has been exported. Electricity worth 17.19 billion 32 lakhs to India and 26.666.98 thousand rupees have been exported to Bangladesh. The authority claims that Nepal has become a net electricity exporter from the previous financial year. 

The authority has been selling electricity for 14 projects in IX's real-time market and day-ahead market. According to the authority, it has been selling electricity from 23.28 MW Trishuli, 14.55 MW Devighat, 67 MW Marsyangdi, 140 MW Kaligandaki A, 68 MW Madhyamarsyangdi and 51 MW Likhu Fourth.

is also selling electricity from 21.44 MW Chilime, 22.80 MW Solu Khola, 24.25 MW Kabeli B1, 19.40 MW Lower Modi, 32.70 MW Upper Kalingadh, 37.30 MW Upper Chamelia, 24.25 MW Upper Dordi A and 34.92 MW Upper Balefi 'A'. Nepal got entry into the 'day-ahead' market of India's Energy Exchange on May 1, 2021.

Initially, Nepal, which was allowed to import electricity, was admitted as an exporter on November 3 of the same year. Earlier, the Authority had received permission to export 690 MW of electricity generated from 16 projects.

Last year, with the approval of 12 more projects, Nepal got permission to export 941 MW of 28 projects. With the approval of 6 more hydropower projects this year, 1140.7 megawatts have been allowed to be exported from 34 projects. 

According to the tripartite agreement between Nepal-India-Bangladesh, the authority has started exporting 40 megawatts of electricity from last June 1 (June 15). Earlier, electricity was exported for the first time on 15 November (30 October 2081) only for 12 hours. Bangladesh has an agreement to export electricity from June 15 to November 15 every year.

A tripartite agreement was signed between Electricity Authority, Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and NTPC Electricity Trading Corporation Limited India (NVVN) on 17 October 2081. Before this, only electricity trade was between Nepal and India.