Salient Feature:
The brief salient features of the project as described in the PPA documents are;
- Project Name: Upper Sanigad Hydro Electric Project (USHEP)
- Project Area: Bungal Municipality – 07, Bajhang
- Source: Sanigad Khola
- Project Type: RoR
- Project Capacity: 10.70 MW
- Catchment area at HW: 96 km2
- Design Discharge: 3.4 m3/sec
- Gross Head: 387.60 m
- Weir: Length – 25 m , Height – 3 m
- Desanding Basin: Length – 50 m , Width – 6 m , Depth – 3 m
- Conveyance: Headrace pipe (surface and subsurface) of mild steel pressure pipe of 1875 meter length, 1 .40 meter diameter, 12 mm thickness
- Penstock: 1122 meter, diameter 1.2 m and thickness of 8 mm – 20 mm
- Powerhouse: The powerhouse is 800 sqm area, Height – 15 meter
- Turbine: Horizontal Axis Pelton 2 unit, turbine axis in level of 1261 m elevation.
- Generating Units: Two units of 3 phase synchronous Generator of 50 Hz of Frequency and Generation Voltage of 11 KV.
- Head Race Tunnel: 2802 m of2.0m x 2.0 m size of the shape of inverted
- PPA and Energy: Total annual contract energy of 62. 706740 GWh, 50.165 GWh wet and 12.541 GWh dry
- Project Cost NRs 3023 million
- Commercial Operation Date: Bhadra 02, 2080