Manage living with 24 days of electricity in a year



People say that Nepal is rich in hydropower and could generate electricity to fulfill its total need as well as sell to neighboring countries. However, the current situation is probably worse in the world. I am saying 'worse' in the sense that the electricity provided by the government of Nepal to its people is very limited, we have calculation below. The country is under load shedding for more than 14 hours per day as per the government electricity authority site (www.nea.org.np). However the exact hours of electricity distributed by the organization are really of no use or not in the prime time of use for general public. What is the use of electricity provided between 10pm to  6am to public? When the public actually require electricity to light their homes or cook their food between 6-9am in morning and 6-9pm in the evening. These six hours are the prime electricity need and use time for Nepali people. Hence, let's see the load shedding time table of Nepal.  Here is an example of sector 3.


Group/Day
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Group 3
04:00-12:00
14:00-20:00
03:00-10:00
13:00-20:00
02:00-09:00
12:00-17:00
09:00-17:00
20:00-01:00
07:00-15:00
17:00-01:00
07:00-14:00
15:00-24:00
05:00-13:00
15:00-21:00
Actual usable hours
Morning = 0
0
0
3
1
1
0
Evening = 1
1
3
2
0
0
0
Usual electricity use (household) in morning is from 06am – 09am and in evening is from 06pm – 09pm.

The table shows that the usable total hours of electricity per week is 12 hours, which means total of 48 hours in a month. What a shame to live in a place where there is complete two days electricity in a month or just 24 days of electricity in a year.

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