Staff Correspondent:

Nepal has started exporting 40 megawatts of electricity to Bangladesh using Indian transmission lines under a tripartite agreement.

According to Power Grid Bangladesh, the country started receiving electricity from 12am on Sunday (June 15). Until noon, Bangladesh received 38MW per hour.

In June 2023, India cleared the way for Nepal to export electricity to Bangladesh using its transmission lines when Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal visited Delhi.

According to the deal with Nepal, each unit costs $0.064.

A tripartite agreement was signed on October 3 last year in Kathmandu among Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), and India’s NTPC.

Nepal will supply electricity to Bangladesh from June 15 to November 15 every year from 2025 to 2029.

Until April 30 this year, the country had an installed power generation capacity of 30,778MW, according to Bangladesh Power Development Board. The government currently imports 2,656MW.