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Nepal's new Hydropower Plant inaugurated
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On December 14, 2008, the Middle Marsyangdi Hydroelectric Project (MMHEP) situated 200 km west of Kathmandu, Nepal, was inaugurated.
During the inauguration ceremony within the festively decorated project site the Government of Nepal formally put into operation the new 72 MW hydropower plant at the Marsyangdi river.
The project comprises a 63 m high concrete spillway dam, a 5 km long intake tunnel and a power house with two vertical Francis turbines. DYWIDAG International as major entity of an international joint venture started construction of the EUR 278 mil. project in 2001. Termination of the project, mainly financed by KfW Entwicklungsbank on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, was delayed by events outside the construction site.
The vast hydraulic potential of Nepal’s rivers make hydropower plants the ideally suited and climate neutral source of energy. For example, MMHEP reduces CO2 emissions by around 340,000 tons each year compared to the use of fossil fuels for the same energy output. Moreover, because of the natural landscape at the project site the hydropower plant required no major alterations.
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