DORDI KHOLA HYDROPOWER PROJECT

Lamjung, Nepal

Progress Report

October 2018
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Himalayan Power Partner Limited

Energy Sector Research, Development & Consulting Services

PO Box # 12538, Kathmandu, Nepal

Tel: 977 1 4002801 Fax 977-1-6217984
Email: hpphydro@gmail.com URL: www.hpp.com.np
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 1
2 Development Milestones .................................................................................................................. 1
3 Project Features ................................................................................................................................ 1
4 Project Construction Schedule ........................................................................................................ 2
5 Progress.............................................................................................................................................. 3
6.1 Financial Progress .................................................................................................................... 3
6.2 Physical Progress...................................................................................................................... 3
6.2.1 Infrastructure Works .......................................................................................................... 4
6.2.2 Surface Civil Works/ Rasuwa Construction Co. ........................................................... 5
6.2.3 Underground Civil Works/Tunnel/ Multi Infrastructure Development Pvt. Ltd.......... 7
6.2.4 Hydro-Mechanical Works/ Machhapuchhre Metal & Machinery Works Pvt. Ltd ..... 9
7 Environmental & Social Support ................................................................................................... 11
7.1 Environmental Works.............................................................................................................. 11
7.2 Social support .......................................................................................................................... 11

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1 Introduction
Dordi Khola Hydropower Project developed by Himalayan Power Partner Ltd. (HPPL)
Kathmandu, Nepal is a Run-of-River type hydroelectric project with generating capacity of
27 MW in Lamjung.

2 Development Milestones

• Survey License Issued : 26 May 2005

• Feasibility Study Completed : December 2012
• Grid Connection Agreement : 7 July 2010
• IEE Approved : 4 October 2010
• Generation License Obtained : 7 July 2011
• PPA Signed : 15 June 2012
• Detailed Project Report Completed : August 2013
• Facility Agreement Signed : 7 November 2013
• Construction Works Started : April 2014
• Required Commercial Operation Date (RCOD) : 31 August 2019

3 Project Features
• Gross Head : 212.0 m
• Design Discharge : 15.28 m3/sec
• Installed Capacity : 27.0 MW
• Total Annual Energy : 148.697GWh
• Total Annual Contract Energy : 142.319GWh
• Dry Season Energy : 21.367 GWh
• Wet Season Energy : 120.952 GWh
• Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) Rate :
• Dry Season Energy : 8.40/unit
• Wet Season Energy : 4.80/unit
• Water Ways
• Closed Conduit/Steel pipe (2.65m) : 3237 m
• Headrace Tunnel (3.3m) : 2662 m
• Penstock Pipe (2.3m) : 700 m
• Tailrace : 330 m
• Powerhouse Type : Surface
• Turbine Type : Francis (3x9 MW)
• Grid Connection Point : Udipur Hub/ Lamjung
• Transmission Line : 132 kV Single Circuit
• Length : 1.2 km

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4 Project Construction Schedule

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5 Progress
6.1 Financial Progress
Facility agreement to provide Term Loan of amount NPR 3,170 million, 75% of total project cost
including IDC which is NPR 4,235 million was concluded with Bank Consortium led by Prime
Commercial Bank Ltd. on 7 November 2013.
Financial progress up to October 17, 2018 (End of Ashoj 2075) including mobilization advance
to the contractors is NPR 2,339 million.
HPPL has completed the process of IPO after allotting equity shares worth NPR 319.625 million
(30% of equity capital NPR 1, 065 million) to general public including project effected area people
and company employees in Shrawan 2074. The public shares of HPPL have been listed in Nepal
Stock Exchange & being trading in Secondary Market.

6.2 Physical Progress

Physical Progress of major construction works up to August 2018 are given in the following table:
SN Description Progress SN Description Progress
% %
1 Infrastructure Works 98 3 Hydro-mechanical works
2 Civil Works 3.1 Steel procurement 100
2.1 Headworks 86.5 3.2 Fabrication 75
2.2 Water Conductor Pipe 85 3.3 Installation 25
2.3 Headrace Tunnel 65 4 Electro-mechanical Works
2.4 Surge Shaft 10 4.1 Design/Production/Supply 93
2.5 Valve house & Penstock 35 4.2 Installation 5
2.6 Powerhouse & Tailrace 65 5 Transmission Line 10

Overall Progress Till October 2018

98%
100%
Progress in %

76.38%
80%
68% 70.33%
60% 73.43%
40%
20%
0% 10%

Major Works

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Physical Progress of all components are explained below:

6.2.1 Infrastructure Works

o Land acquisition
Acquisition of private land for headworks, water conductor pipe alignment, penstock
pipe alignment and power house almost completed.

o Government Approval for tree felling and use of forest land

Approval for tree cutting and use of forest land for construction of surge shaft was
granted on April 2017. The process of tree cutting for surge shaft has completed.

• Construction of Access Roads & Bridge/ Rasuwa Construction Co.

Before awarding the major civil works of the project, infrastructure works such as construction of
access/ link roads to the project sites, construction of an RCC bridge on Dordi Khola at upstream
of the weir site was completed.

Bridge & Access Road construction

• Construction of Camps
Construction of camps, staff quarters and office at headworks site and the powerhouse site of
the project.

Staff quarter, Office and Guest house at Headworks site & Powerhouse Site

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6.2.2 Surface Civil Works/ Rasuwa Construction Co.

The construction of civil surface works including hydro-mechanical works of the project, which
includes the construction of headworks, desilting basin, water conductor pipe, penstock pipe,
powerhouse, tailrace and switchyard and all related hydro-mechanical works, was awarded to
MS Rasuwa Construction Company Pvt. Ltd. in February 2015. Considering the necessity of
smooth interface coordination between civil and hydro-mechanical works, the HM works were
included in civil contract package. The prime contractor Rasuwa Construction Company Pvt. Ltd.
has appointed Machhapuchhre Metal and Machinery Works (3MW) as nominated subcontractor
for all the hydro-mechanical works and Machhapuchhre Engineering Pvt. Ltd. (MEPL) for civil
works of penstock and water conductor pipe alignment.

Bird Eye View of Headworks Area.

• Diversion Weir, Intake and Feeder Pipe

The stopped construction works at the diversion weir due to monsoon season has already
resumed and the concrete works of the spill weir portion at the block no. 5 is going on. The river
water is being diverted through the undersluice structure. All the civil works at Intake structure

Resumed concrete works at diversion weir after monsoon season, Intake Undersluice

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including embedment parts have been completed. The construction of weir has completed about
85% as of to date. As the river discharge is lowering day by day, soon an access will be made
crossing the river and civil works along with hydro-mechanical works of feeder pipe will be started.
The formworks preparation for the concrete intake bell mouth has been started.

• Desilting Basin
Both the bays of desilting basin structural concreting have been completed. The concrete works
at the Inlet transition from feeder pipe for both the bays of desilting basin are going on. In parallel,
the shear walls of head pond structure at the downstream of desilting basin is being raised. The
flushing pipe installation beneath the head pond and raft has been completed.

Construction Works at Desilting Basin Inlet transition and Head pond

• Water Conductor Pipe & Penstock Pipe Alignment and Valve house
Track opening along Water Conductor & Penstock Pipes was completed and trench cutting for
laying of pipe is continuing along with installation of WCP. It has been planned to conduct the
construction works at the WCP alignment from three separate faces simultaneously and
contractor is mobilizing all the required resources accordingly.

At the penstock alignment, concreting of 5 anchor blocks out of 7 have completed. The excavation
works of trenches for laying and installation of Penstock Pipes are in progress. About 200 m
penstock pipe has been installed and buried. The construction of valve house which is situated
immediate after the tunnel outlet and beginning of the penstock pipe shall be started only after
completion of tunneling works.

WCP Laying and Trench excavation at WCP

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Construction Works along Penstock Pipe alignment

• Power House
The machine foundation concreting works up to the machine floor level has already completed
for all the three units with first stage EM embedment parts. The deck wall, tail pool concreting
works in progress. Because of the flash flood in Marsyangdi river, occurred on 27th Bhadra 2075,
the powerhouse construction area was filled with sand and silt. Now the deposited debris has
been completely removed and started scaffolding works required for the concreting of shear
walls. A new batching plant of sufficient capacity has been installed. The first stage concreting of
thrust block of the branching penstock pipe for all three units is completed with the installation of
pipes.

Debris cleaning at Powerhouse after flash Flood

• Tailrace
The tail pool concrete works for all three units have been completed. The excavation work for the
tailrace canal will continue soon once the river discharge will lower down.

6.2.3 Underground Civil Works/Tunnel/ Multi Infrastructure Development Pvt. Ltd

The contractor Multi Infrastructure Development (MID) Company is continuing the tunneling
works from both inlet and outlet faces since May 2018. MID has deployed more required
equipment such as robotic shotcrete machine, use of drilling machine at inlet and planning to
deploy more at outlet face too for accelerating the tunneling process.

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• Excavation from Inlet

Multi Infrastructure Development Company Pvt. Ltd. was continuing the excavation with heading
& benching following the original alignment due to encountering of poor geological condition
again. The rib supports are being placed with dry stone back filling/ concrete back filling as per
site condition. As the rockmass condition is gradually improving full face blasting is performing
since from few days with occasionally two blasts per day. The average pull achieving from inlet
is about 1m/ day. The festive season also affected in the progress achievement. The excavation
progress achieved till the end of September, 2018 is up to CH 0+684 m.

Tunnel Face from Inlet

• Excavation from Outlet

The rock mass condition is still not better as expected; however, excavation is going on smoothly
with average pull of 1.2 m /day. the outlet side excavation progress achieved till the end of
October 2018 is up to CH 1+235 m.

Tunneling Works at Outlet Side

• Surge Shaft
The tree felling process has been completed at the surge tank area and it has been cleared. The
access to the top of the surge shaft is being studied and soon excavation will start for a pilot hole
from top. Excavation of the surge shaft shall be started just after monsoon in October 2018.

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Tunnel Excavation Progress till end of October 2018

1385 1385
1400 1235

1200
Excavation Length in m

1000

800 684.2

600

400

200

0
From Inlet From Outlet

Target (50% of Total Length) Achieved

6.2.4 Hydro-Mechanical Works/ Machhapuchhre Metal & Machinery Works Pvt.

Ltd

Fabrication of water conductor pipes almost completed. Installation of 570 m WCP pipe and 220m
penstock pipes has been completed and further continuing the installation works as per the
progress of civil works. The fabrication of trifurcation manifold has completed at the workshop in
Pokhara and will be delivered to the site soon. Metal parts along with gate/stoplog frames at
undersluice, Intake, desilting basin and draft tube at powerhouse has been completed. The
flushing pipes of desilting basin underneath the head pond has been already installed.

Manufacturing of Trifurcation Manifold and Expansion Joint of Feeder Pipe

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Pipe Rolling and Stiffeners cutting at workshop @ Headworks

6.2.5 Electro-Mechanical Works/ Voith Hydro

The electro-mechanical works including supply and installation of equipment was awarded to
Voith Hydro Private Ltd. Voith has already delivered three units of generator sets, LAVT, NGT
panels, EOT and HOT cranes at site. Generator transformers, MIV, turbine, PPV, Spiral Casing,
switchyard equipment etc. have already been dispatched and waiting for custom clearance at the
India border side. Because of the lagging in civil works progress, the equipment dispatched/
delivered are being stored at the Army yard at Udipur near the powerhouse area. As per the
extended RCOD, a revised construction schedule has been prepared and sent to Voith for
rescheduling of their service/installation program.

E&M Equipment lying and loading at India border

6.2.6 Transmission Line/Power Evacuation

Grid connection agreement with Nepal Electricity Authority was concluded to evacuate the
generated power in proposed Udipur Hub by 1.2 km 132 kV single circuit Transmission Line.
Construction of Udipur Hub and transmission line along the Marsyangdi Corridor by NEA is
delayed and expected to be completed by 2019. Subsequently RCOD has been extended up to
31st August 2019.

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7 Environmental & Social Support

7.1 Environmental Works
o Geo-environmental Unit
Geo-environmental unit in the project site has been already established to address
environmental mitigation works.

Bio-engineering Works Along WCP alignment

o Mitigation Works
Bio-engineering and slope stability works are going on along water conductor/service
road alignment.
7.2 Social support
Social support to local communities in project affected areas such as construction/ improvement
of local roads, drinking water schemes, support to community schools, rural electrification etc.
are going on under this heading.

Bal Bikash Ni.Ma.Bi. School Building at Ramchowk Besi Drinking Water Storage and Distribution Tank
built with the support of the project built with the support of the project at Syaut.

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