The 69-megawatt Marsyangdi Hydropower Center, located in Aabu Khaireni Rural Municipality-4, is currently generating only half of its capacity due to low water flow in the river.
Sher Mohammad Hussain, Assistant Manager and Mechanical Engineer at the Marsyangdi Hydropower Center, stated that the plant is producing an average of 34 megawatts of electricity. “The snow has not yet melted, and the water flow in Marsyangdi is low. Power generation has been declining since Poush (mid-December to mid-January). Once the snow starts melting, the flow will gradually increase,” he explained.
The hydropower project operates three turbines, each with a capacity of 23 megawatts. At full capacity, it generates 69 megawatts during morning and evening peak hours.
“Since electricity demand is high in the morning and evening, we store river water in a reserve tank during the day and release it as needed,” Hussain added.
Completed in 1989, the Marsyangdi Hydropower Project supplies electricity to the national transmission grid through Bharatpur in Chitwan and the Syuchatar station in Kathmandu.
