{"id":434600,"date":"2026-08-24T11:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=434600"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:03:11","slug":"rahughat-hydropower-project-completed-trial-power-generation-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/08\/24\/434600.html","title":{"rendered":"Rahughat Hydropower Project completed, trial power generation begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Myagdi:<\/strong> Construction of the 40-megawatt Rahughat Hydropower Project in Myagdi has been completed, with trial power generation set to begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project, promoted by Raghuganga Hydropower Limited, a subsidiary of the Nepal Electricity Authority, has completed physical construction and equipment installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Project officials say testing of the dam, tunnel, water retention ponds and switchyard has been successful. Trial generation from one 20-megawatt unit has also begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials expect trial generation to continue for about a week to 10 days before commercial power production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project has faced repeated delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, floods, landslides and shortages of construction materials. Its completion deadline was extended four times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is expected to generate 40 megawatts of electricity for the national grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project, promoted by Raghuganga Hydropower Limited, a subsidiary of the Nepal Electricity Authority, has completed physical construction and equipment installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":434604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-434600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434602,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434600\/revisions\/434602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434600"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=434600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}