About Project AMHL
About: Amadablam Mini Hydro Subproject (AMHP)
(AMHP) is a run-of-river hydropower project harnessing the power of Cholunche Khola to generate 911 kW of clean, renewable energy.
Project Overview
🔹 Location: Pangboche, Solukhumbu, Nepal
🔹 Installed Capacity: 911 kW
🔹 Beneficiary Households: 451
🔹 Type: Run-of-river hydropower
🗺 Location & Accessibility
🔹 Geographical Coordinates: 27°50’50″N – 27°51’40″N, 86°47’49″E – 86°49’19″E
🔹 Elevation: 3,951.18m – 4,422m above sea level
🔹 Nearest Town: Namche Bazaar (13 km away)
🔹 How to Reach:
▪ ✈ By Air: Kathmandu ✈ Lukla → 1 – 2 days walk
▪ 🚗 By Road: Kathmandu -> Salleri → Seasonal road to Surkhet → 1 – 2 days walk
⚙ Technical Highlights
🔹 Water Source: Cholunche Khola
🔹 Catchment Area: 28 km²
🔹 Net Head: 448.86 m
🔹 Annual Energy Production: 7,225,781.76 kWh
🔹 Powerhouse Location: 27°51’12.98″N, 86°47’49.21″E
🛠 Project Infrastructure
🔹 Headworks: Intake, desanding basin, penstock pipe
🔹 Powerhouse: 2× Horizontal Shaft Pelton Turbines
🔹 Transmission & Distribution: 64.45 km underground & overhead lines
🔹 Switchyard: Indoor, 11 kV
🌿 Environmental & Social Compliance
The Amadablam Mini Hydro Project prioritizes environmental sustainability and minimal ecological impact. To preserve the natural landscape, transmission and distribution lines are underground, except at river crossings.
📜 This project complies with:
🔹 Hydropower Development Policy, 2001
🔹 Environment Protection Act, 2019
🔹 National Water Resource Strategy, 2002
🔹 World Bank Environmental & Social Safeguard Policies
📊 Financial & Economic Impact
🔹 Total Project Cost: NRs. 618,901,638.89
🔹 Funding Breakdown:
▪ 20.73% – Subsidy (Government of Nepal, AEPC, MGEAP)
▪ 59.27% – Loan (World Bank, AEPC, MGEAP)
▪ 20.00% – Equity (ESCO)
Amadablam Mini Hydro Limited is a leading mini hydro power company in Nepal, delivering clean energy to rural communities and supporting sustainable development.
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