Palpa's Jhumsakhola third small hydropower project is connected to the national transmission line. Mathagadhi rural municipality-5 Hattilung Jhumsakhola small hydropower project is connected to the national transmission line. The project was built in 064.

Before connection, Bhumsakhola Small Hydroelectricity Production Cooperative Society Ltd. has been converted into third. Bir Bahadur Barghare, Chairman of Jhumsakhola Small Hydropower Cooperative, said that the remaining electricity produced by the project in more than 500 households is connected to the national transmission line. 

The powerhouse in Jhumsakhola Khallaghat has a capacity of 68 kilowatts of electricity generation. Inaugurating the connection of Jhumsakhola to the national transmission line, Member of the House of Representatives Narayan Acharya stressed that in the future, the government should include it in the policy level and initiate policy making to connect small hydropower to the national transmission line. . 

Consumers who could not get electricity service from the national transmission line in the past have taken small hydropower, but now they are stranded after reaching the national transmission line. Electricity has been connected to the national transmission line with the support of Alternative Energy Promotion Center, National Micro and Small Hydropower Consumer Society, Nepal Energy Institute and Mathagadhi Rural Municipality. 

Jhumsakhola Small Hydroelectricity Nepal Renewable Energy Program has invested 5 million from the Alternative Energy Promotion Center, 10 million from the National Small and Small Hydropower Consumer Society, 12 million from the Nepal Energy Foundation, 2.2 million shares from consumers and 33 million from the Mathagadi rural municipality, said Yam Bahadur Chidi, chairman of the rural municipality. The purpose of this is to increase the income of cooperatives and consumer societies.

Secretary of Consumer Committee Thaman Reshmi confirmed that there is work to connect the generated energy to the national transmission line around the clock. He said that although the Bhumsa 3rd hydropower project, which is connected to the national transmission line, has a capacity of 68 kilowatts, currently only 30/35 kilowatts are being used by local consumers. Secretary Reshmi said that by selling the remaining energy to the Electricity Authority, it is estimated that the urban residents will get an additional income of up to 2 lakh rupees per month. 

There are only 66 small hydropower projects in operation in the hill districts of Lumbini province. Those projects were conducted by consumer committees and some cooperatives. Most of these projects are currently in a state of uncertainty whether to operate or not. As a result, even if 2,268 kilowatts of electricity is produced from such small hydropower projects, it is very expensive to connect it to the national transmission line. 

According to Navraj Dhakal, Executive Director of Alternative Energy Promotion Center, there is a need for policy making to connect the remaining electricity used by consumers to the national transmission line. 'Consumers have to buy panel boards, access wires, poles, net meters, transformers, etc.,' he said, 'For that, Alternative Energy Promotion Center has invested 50 percent.' did. He said that they will earn benefits after the remaining electricity is connected to the national transmission line according to their capacity.

A study has shown that 17 small hydropower projects in Lumbini province like Bhumsakhola can be connected to the national transmission line. Prakash Bhandari, Senior Officer of the Alternative Energy Promotion Center, says that close to the national transmission line, at least more than 10 kilowatts of production capacity can be connected to the national transmission line by looking at the interest of the consumer committee.  He said that after connecting to the national transmission line, the Nepal Electricity Authority will pay the amount of electricity consumed to the consumer committee. Dilli Ghimire of Nepal Energy Foundation said that the problem of maintenance, not being able to remove wooden poles, dams and dams being washed away by floods is not only a problem for consumers, but the confusion has increased due to the expansion of the national transmission line in villages.

"Now it is not as easy for consumers to connect electricity to the national transmission line," he said, "because the federal government has not yet been able to make a policy." Therefore, he said, the small hydropower projects that are in confusion should be connected to the national transmission line by making a policy as soon as possible.