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It has been found that 96 percent of the households in the district, which has ten local levels, consume electricity. According to the survey conducted by the Nepal Electricity Authority, it was found that 86 percent of the consumers have electricity from the central transmission line and 10 percent from micro hydro and solar grid.
Despite the completion of 25 years of the extension of the central transmission line, electricity has not yet reached more than two thousand households in the district. In 2057, the then Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala formally inaugurated the electricity of the central transmission line in Diktel Bazar in the district which has two municipalities and eight rural villages.
According to the information provided by the Electricity Authority, 3,430 households are consuming electricity from micro hydro and 283 from solar grid in the district. It is said that some of the more than 2,000 household consumers in the district, which are yet to be electrified, still have to rely on kerosene oil and solar tuki.
Sovit Bahadur Chhetri, head of Diktel Distribution Center of the Electricity Authority, informed that a budget of Rs. According to the survey conducted by us, 2000 consumers in the district are yet to be electrified. For this, we have also requested a budget from the center, he said, "If the budget is approved by the center, then the complete electrification work will be completed in the district next year. We are taking initiatives in the relevant places for that.
Electricity has been distributed to the consumers of Khotang, Okhaldhunga and Solukhumbu from the substation located in Diktel Rupakot Majhuwagadhi Municipality-14 Buipa. Experts have said that there are frequent problems with the power of the central transmission line distributed for the consumers of three districts, and to solve the problem in the long term, the tower must be installed.
10.6 megawatts of electricity from three hydropower projects produced in the district have been connected to the central transmission line. Sapsukhola Hydropower Project, Upper Rawakhola Small Hydropower Project and Mewakhola Hydropower 10.6 MW hydropower is connected to 33 KV central transmission line.
Sapsukhola hydropower project produced from Sapsu river in Rajapani-11 Rajapani, 6.6 megawatts from Rawakhola on the border of Kepilasgadhi Rural Municipality-6 Dipsung and Ward No. 7 Sungdel and one megawatt of hydroelectricity from Mewakhala in Diktel Rupakot Majhuwagadhi municipality-5 Lafyang. The hydropower generated from three different rivers in the district is connected to the 33 KV transmission line at Buipa.
According to the information provided by the Electricity Authority, not even a third of the electricity produced in the district has been consumed. Consumers have been harassed due to frequent power outages of the central transmission lines extended in the district. So much so that when it rains a little more, when there is a little strong wind and when there is a flash flood, the electricity is interrupted. Three customers have been suffering due to the problem of electricity coming and going dozens of times in one day.
The customer complains that due to the problem of power outages in the central transmission line, the electrical equipment has been damaged and it is not possible to work regularly. The authority has been saying that electricity is often cut off due to long distances, forest roads, low poles and landslides in places.
