Khopasi Hydro Power
Khopasi Hydropower Station is the third hydropower station which was constructed in Nepal. It is the first megawatt capacity hydropower station in Nepal. It is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric plant on the Roshi Khola river. This power station is located at Khopasi, Kavre district, 35 km east of Kathmandu and 7 km south-east from Panauti Bazar.
It was built in 1965 with the assistance from then Soviet
Union at a cost of NRs 27 million. It has a capacity of 2.4 MW, from 3 units of 0.8 MW each and annual design generation of 6.97 GWh. The Project
was designed for operation of only two units at a
time with third unit as a standby. Open canal of
3,721 m long with discharge of 3.2 cu. m/s from
headwork to reservoir has seven outlet gates
for irrigation in the vicinity of Khopasi.
After the major improvement activities accomplished in
2018/019, Panauti Hydropower Station is
generating maximum annual energy which the
power plant had not been able to do since the last
11 years.
| Hydropower name | Panauti Hydropower Station |
| Commissioned year | 1965 |
| Type | Run of River |
| Location | Panauti Municipality–12, Khopasi |
| Installed capacity | 2.4 MW |
| Annual average energy | 6.97 GWh |
| Maximum Net head Catchment area | 66m /60m |
| Average annual flow | 3.2m^3/s |
| Live storage volume Dam | 50,000 m3 |
| Total length of the waterways | 3.721 km |
| Penstock turbine | 1 No., 370m long, 1.4m |
| Numbers of Turbine /type | 3/ Horizontal Francis |
| Rated discharge/ Turbine | 1.61m3/s |
| Rated output / Turbine | 0.85MW |
| Rated speed | 1000 rpm |
| Generator Rated output | 1000 kVA |
| Rated voltage | 6.3 kV |
| Rated frequency | 50Hz |
| Power factor | 0.8 |
| Power transformer | 1550 kVA, 6.3 kV/33 kV, 3 phase, 2 Nos. |
| Transmission line | 33kV, 20km, single circuit |