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Madme Khola Hydropower Project (MKHP) is located within Annapurna Conservation Area at Madi Rural Municipality of Kaski District, Gandaki Provience, Nepal. It identifies the project with a Capacity of 24 MW and the company obtained survey license on 15/04/2074 from the Department of Electricity Development (DoED) to start the feasibility study. The project is located between confluence of Madi river-Madme Khola and 3 km upstream of the confluence.

The project has been designed as a run of river (RoR) type and has an estimated annual energy as per FSR is 142.19 GWh. Design discharge of the project is 5.28 m³/s at 42.8% exceedance flow and a gross head of 555.364 m. The project consumes 1,45,224 bags of Cement, 2,100T of Steel, 1,815m3 of Aggregate, 10,892m3 of Sand, 1,698.11T of Steel Plate, 97,440 nos of Skilled Manpower and 1,08,918 nos of Unskilled Manpower.

Environment, Social Impact and Mitigation

  • The Project lies in Annapurna Conservation Area.
  • EIA is completed and approved by Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation.
  • To harvest trees at required locations, permission has been granted from the Ministry of Forest and Environment.

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Salient Features

Gross Head: 555.364 m
Net Head: 536.02 m
Design Discharge: 5.28 m3/sec (Q42.8%)s
Installed Capacity: 24 MW
Line Loss @ 4% 5.92 GWh
Contract Energy (After outage and losses): 142.190 GWh
Energy/MW: 5.92 GWh
Dry season Energy (6 month): 43.786 GWh (30.79 % of total energy)
Wet season Energy (6 month): 98.405 GWh
PPA: Take or Pay basis
RCOD: 12 April 2024
Dry energy(six months): NPR 8.40 per kWh
Wet energy(Six month): NPR 4.80 per kWh

Route Via Madkyu Dovan (259km) Kathmandu – Pokhara: 200 km (BT)
Pokhara – Bijaypur Khola: 5 km (BT)

Bijaypur Khola – Madkyu Dovan: 39 km (E.Road)

Madkyu Dovan – Powerhouse: 9 km ( E. Road)

Powerhouse – Head-works: 6 km (to be built)

Project Accessibility

Hydrology

Type of development: RoR
Catchment Area:
Intake – 48.7 Km2
Powerhouse – 64.8 Km2
Annual discharge (Q43% ): 7.44 m3/sec
Design discharge (Q43% ): 5.28 m3/sec 
Environmental flow: 0.131 m3/s
Design flood: 185.75 m3/s (1 in 100 yrs)
Construction flood: 8.68 m3/s (1 in 20 years )