By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Dec. 11: The 8th meeting of Joint Steering Committee and Joint Working Group (JWG) on Nepal-India Cooperation in Power Sector has kicked off on Thursday via virtual platform.
The two-day meeting will deliberate on grid interconnectedness, Nepal’s market access to India for surplus energy and Indian investment in Nepal’s hydroelectricity and solar power, Indian Embassy in Nepal said in a tweet.
The Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation said that the meeting would discuss the Dhalkebar-Mujaffarpur, new Butwal-Gorakhpur and other cross-country transmission lines, and the formation of new institution with bilateral investment and human resources to develop the latter project.
The meeting is also expected to conclude the remaining issues of the Power Trade Agreement between the two neighbours. It would pave way to manage Nepal’s surplus electricity during monsoon.
Although India has pledged to buy surplus energy from Nepal, it had not formulated procedure for the same. Thursday’s meeting led by joint-secretaries of the energy ministries of Nepal and India deliberated on the technical aspects of the issues.
The secretary-level meeting will be held on Friday which is expected to have final say on various energy related bilateral matters.