In the financial year 2081/82, Nepal has exported electricity worth 17 billion 459 million rupees. Electricity worth 17.19 billion 32 lakhs to India and 26.666.98 thousand rupees have been exported to Bangladesh. During this period, electricity worth 12.92 billion 31 lakh rupees has been imported from India.

Electricity export increased and import decreased in the last financial year compared to the previous year, the authority said. In the financial year 2080/81, electricity worth 17 billion 66 million rupees was exported to India.

In Bangladesh, electricity export had not started. In that year 2080/81, electricity worth 16.92 billion rupees was imported from India. In the last fiscal year, the data of the authority is that 2 billion 34 million 99 million 86 thousand 955 and 3 million 3 million 9 thousand 760 kilowatt-hours of electricity were exported to Bangladesh. 

The Nepal Electricity Authority has been exporting electricity to India and Bangladesh during the rainy season. Electricity is being sold at competitive rates in the 'Day Ahead' and 'Real Time Market' of the Indian Energy Exchange (IX). The authority has also sold electricity to the Indian company NTPC Electricity Trading Corporation (NVVN) as per the mid-term electricity agreement. NVVN has been supplying electricity purchased from here to Haryana state.

Electricity trade with India is done in Indian rupees. Bangladesh is exporting electricity in dollars. The authority has been exporting electricity during the rainy season because the production will increase after the water flow in the rivers and streams starts to increase. With the onset of winter, when the flow of water in rivers and streams decreases, the production of hydropower projects decreases, electricity is imported from India in the few months of winter to meet the demand of the country. 

The then executive director of the authority, Kulman Ghising, had claimed that Nepal had become a net exporter from a net importer of electricity by exporting electricity worth 130 million rupees more than imports in 2080/81. But the indigenous industrialist commented that he became a net exporter of electricity by exporting it to India without providing electricity as per the demand. In the last financial year, there is a data that imports have decreased and exports have increased. 

The government of India first gave permission to import 39 MW of electricity from Nepal in October 2021. The authority has so far received approval to sell 941 MW of electricity in the Indian market as per the competitive market and the medium-term electricity sale agreement.

Rajan Dhakal, spokesperson of the authority, which is currently exporting electricity up to 7800 megawatts, informed. According to Dhakal, electricity could not be exported at its full capacity due to the damage to the hydropower project due to leakages, floods and landslides, as well as the capacity of the transmission lines. Some projects are closed now.

Full production has not been achieved due to cloudy water,'' he said. After that only 1000 megawatts can be exported. Spokesman Dhakal informed that India has been requested for the approval of hydropower projects worth an additional 350 megawatts. "It is said that the approval to export 200 megawatts will come soon," he said.