Wind Electricity In Nepal
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A Spanish team is in Mustang district to materialise Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s dream to generate electricity from the wind. The team, which has been working for the past two weeks, claims that the electricity generated by harnessing the wind power will illuminate Jomsom within a month.Spanish investor Rafel Vinas Pich, engineers Casimiro Vardaguer and Marco Foz Vardaguer and a Nepali living in Spain, Pushparaj Timilsena, are working in the project.Rafel and Timilsena are the main investors who formed the Buddha Power Pvt Ltd to study the feasibility of producing 3,000 megawatt of electricity using wind turbines in Jomsom. For trial, the company is working to generate 1.5 kilowatts, the company said.The four-member team is setting up infrastructure on the premises of the District Police Office. “We are setting up this project at the police office for security reasons,” said Timilsena, who is also a former central advisor of the Non-resident Nepali Association. He said the technology was introduced in Nepal in collaboration with the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre.
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