Citing decreased water level in the rivers and with Middle Marshyangdi closed for maintenance from the last two days, Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has imposed 29 hours of weekly power cuts (also called load shedding) in the country from Wednesday.
NEA, the state monopoly for supply of electricity, published a new schedule for increased load shedding hours Monday. According to the new schedule, power will be cut twice a day in two to three-and-half hour slots for five days a week and once for one day. One day a week will load shedding free.
Earlier, NEA had been imposing load shedding for two hours a day for six days a week.
NEA said, it was forced to increase the load shedding hours due to decreased water level in the rivers and increased demand with the advent of winter season.
Load shedding hours is likely to increase for more than 16 hours a day this year as there has not been substantial addition in the power supply this year.
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