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
|
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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