Jhapa Energy, a solar power producer, has sold electricity worth Rs 47.1 million to the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) over the past five months. From mid-July to December, the company produced 6.52 million units of electricity from its 10-megawatt solar project in Buluchowk, Ward No. 4, Shivasatakshi Municipality, according to Lal Bahadur Sanwa Limbu, chair of the company’s board of directors. The NEA purchases power from Jhapa Energy at a rate of Rs 7.30 per unit. The company has been generating electricity commercially for the past two years. Jhapa Energy’s project covers 22 bigaha of land in Buluchowk, where 21,600 solar panels have been installed. The electricity generated is transmitted to the NEA’s Buluchowk substation, less than a kilometer away, and fed into the national grid.
