Salient Feature:
The brief salient features of the project as described in the PPA documents are;
- Project Name: Upper Kalanga Hydro Electric Project (UKHEP)
- Project Area: Bungal Municipality, Bajhang
- Source: Kalanga gad khola
- Project Type: RoR
- Project Capacity: 38.46 MW
- Catchment area at HW: 162.68 Sq. km
- Design Discharge: 7.99 m3/sec
- Gross Head: 585.50 m
- Weir: Length – 35 m , Height – 4.3 m
- Desanding Basin: Length – 130 m
- Conveyance: Headrace canal, Box Culvert of total length 920 m and cross section 2.7 m x 2.3 m
- Penstock: 1500 meter, diameter 1.55 m and thickness of 22 mm
- Powerhouse: The powerhouse is of size 40m x 30m x 25m
- Turbine: Vertical Axis Pelton 3 unit, turbine axis in level of 1182.5 m elevation.
- Generating Units: Three units of 3 phase synchronous Generator of 50 Hz of Frequency and Generation Voltage of 11 KV.
- Head Race Tunnel: 6478m of 2.5m dia of inverted D-shape
- PPA and Energy: Total annual contract energy of 219.390018 GWb, 180.318988 GWh wet and 39.071030 GWb dry
- Project Cost NRs 8,687 million
- Commercial Operation Date: Falgun 06, 2079