Chilime-Trishuli 220 kV transmission line construction nears completion

Kathmandu, Sept 8: The construction of the Chilime-Trishuli 220 kV transmission line has reached the final phase of completion.

This transmission line is considered as important in feeding the electricity generated from the under-construction and to-be-constructed hydroelectricity projects being developed along the Trishuli River corridor and its tributaries to the national grid.     

Final phase works are in progress for the construction of the 28 kilometres transmission line from Chilime Hub Substation at Thambuchet of Aama Chhodingmo rural municipality in Rasuwa to the Trishuli Three B Hub Substation at Pahirebensi of Kispang Rural Municipality in Nuwakot district.     

Works are progressing to complete the construction and bring the transmission line into operation before the Dashain festival.     

The construction of the 220/132/33 kV Chilime Hub and Trishuli Three B Hub substations under the Chilime-Trishuli 220 kV Transmission Line Project has been completed. Seventy-five of the 76 towers of the transmission line have been constructed and works on installing the remaining tower have reached the final stage.     

Installation of power cable remains only in the five kilometres of the total 28 kilometres transmission line. Two hundred workers are employed to install the tower and the power cables.

A high-level team of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), including Managing Director Kulman Ghising and Deputy Executive Director of the Transmission Directorate, Dirghayu Kumar Shrestha, carried out a field-level monitoring of the construction on Saturday. The high-level team has fixed the deadline for the construction well before the Dashain festival (October 12, 2024).     

The NEA high-level team held discussions with the Project management, consultant and contractor company and urged them not to allow any delay in the construction works, to expedite the construction by adding workers and to carry out works by preparing a timetable for accomplishing the remaining works within the deadline.     

The team also inspected the site where works are in progress for installing the last remaining tower and the power cables.     

The electricity produced from the 110 MW Rasuwagadhi and 42.5 MW Sanjen hydroelectricity projects developed at the initiatives of Chilime Hydroelectricity Company, a subsidiary company of NEA, would be fed to this transmission line.     

Construction of both projects is over and they are in the phase of production. The NEA is under pressure to complete the transmission line construction at the earliest due to this reason as well. (RSS)