China’s Three Gorges International is to build the US$ 1.6 billion West Seti hydropower plant in west Nepal. It will be Nepal’s largest ever foreign investment project
According to an agreement signed between the Nepal government and Three Gorges, the latter will own 75 percent of the 750 MW project while Nepal’s state-owned electricity monopoly Nepal Electricity Authority will own a 25 percent share.
If all goes to plan construction of the dam will begin in 2014 and project will be completed in 2019. The produced power is for Nepal’s domestic consumption but could be exported to India if there is a surplus, according to Nepal’s Ministry of Energy.
