Himalaya Urja Bikash Company Limited
Upallo Khmiti, 12MW and
Upper Khimti-II, 7 MW Hydroelectric Project
Progress Report No. 1
(Period From Financial Closure Date - Till Shrawan 2072)
11thBhadra 2072 (28th August 2015)
Developer:HIMALAYA URJA BIKASH COMPANY LIMITED
Tinkune, Kathmandu
Upallo Khimti and Upper Khimti-II Hydroelectric ProjectProgress Report No. 1
Project Name: / Upallo Khmiti, 12MW and Upper Khimti-II,7MW Hydroelectric ProjectReport for: / Himalaya Urja Bikash Company Limited,
Preparation Review and Authorisation
Revision / Date / Prepared by / Reviewed by / Approved for Issue by28 August 2015 / R H Dhakal / S K Upadhyay / S K Upadhyay
S Sharma
K Acharya
YL Tharu
COMPANY DETAILS
Himalaya Urja Bikash Company Ltd.
Subhidhanagar, Tinkune-35, Kathmamdu,Nepal
GPO Box: 8973 NPC868, Tel: + 977- 1-4111853/1-4111673
Email:
Web Page: URL:
Address: -
Authorized Person:
Er. Saroj Kumar Upadhyay
Director – Technical
Project Management OfficeHead Office:-
Chuchure VDC-1,Subhidhanagar, Tinkune-35, Ramechhap, Nepal Kathmamdu,Nepal
+977 – 1 – 6206742/ 6220 004+977-1-4111853
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Table of Contents
1Project Details
1.1Description
1.1.1Upallo Khimti Hydroelectric Project-12 MW
1.1.2Upper Khimti Hydroelectric Project -7 MW
1.2Schematic Diagram
1.2.1Schematic Diagram of Upallo Khimti Hydroelectric Project-12 MW
1.2.2Schematic Diagram of Upper Khimti Hydroelectric Project-7 MW
1.3The Parties
1.3.1Employer
1.3.2Consultant
1.3.3Lot 1 Contractor
1.3.4Lot 2 Contractor
1.3.5Lot 3 Contractor
1.3.6Lot 4 Contractor
2Key Dates
3Monthly Report Executive Summary
3.1Introduction
3.2General
3.3Engineering Design
3.4Effect of Earthquake in Project
4Land Acquisition and Access Road Construction
4.1Land Acquisition
4.2Land Leasing
4.3Access Road Construction
5Camp House Construction
6Construction Power
6.1Study of Reliability of Power Available at Site
6.2Procurement of Material
6.3Construction of Construction Power
7Civil Works
7.1Preliminary Works
7.2Tender Documents
7.3Construction Materials Survey
7.4Detailed Time Programme
8Lot 3 Contract – Electromechanical Works
8.1Preliminary Works
8.2Tender Documents
9Lot 4 Contract – Hydro Mechanical Works
9.1Preliminary Works
9.2Procurement of Metals
9.3Tender Documents
10Human Resources
10.1Technical Team
10.2Administrative Staff
11Social Mitigation
12Financial Status
APPENDIX 1: PHOTOGRAPHS
Progress on Project Site are available in website pages:
1.Progress on Project – I
2.Progress on Project - II
APPENDIX 2: Civil Construction Schedules
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Acronyms
BoQBill of Quantities
CECClean Energy Consultants Pvt. Ltd
DoED Department of Electricity Development
DTPDetailed Time Programme
GWhGiga Watt hour
HUBCLHimalaya Urja Bikash Company Limited
IEEInitial Environmental Examination
MWMega Watt
UKHP-IIUpper Khimti-II Hydroelectric Project
UKHPUpallo Khimti Hydroelectric Project
VATValue Added Tax
VDCVillage Development Committee
1Project Details
1.1Description
1.1.1Upallo Khimti Hydroelectric Project-12 MW
Upallo Khimti Hydropower Project (UKHP) 12 MW is located mostly in Chuchure VDC of Ramechhap distric, Janakpur Zone, Central Development Region of Nepal. The project area is located between longitudes 86o19' 20" E to 86o21' 40" E and latitudes 27o39' 24" N to 27o41' 54" N. The project components are located between elevations of 2003 m to 2303 m.
UKHP is a peaking run-of-river hydropower project. Intake is located at near the junction of Ghwang Khola and Khimti at altitude of 2300m form MSL, where water is taken from the Khimti River.
The project will exploit a gross head of approx. 300 m on the Khimti river over a reach of about 3.5 km along the left bank of river to the tailrace outlet near Gifasa village of altitude of about 2000m form MSL. The surface powerhouse is located near Gifasa village and twohorizontal axis Pelton turbine/generating units are to be installed, each of rated capacity 6.0MW. At the installed capacity of 12 MW, it is estimated that the average annual energy production will be 73.61 GWh.
The following table shows the basic feature of the project:
Feature / UKHP HEPInstalled Capacity / 12 MW
Gross Head / 300.0 m
Annual Sellable Energy / 73.61 GWh
Design Discharge / 5.61 m3/s
Degree of Flow Exceedence / 40%
1.1.2Upper Khimti Hydroelectric Project-7 MW
Upper Khimti-II Hydroelectric Project (UKHP-II) 7 MW is a cascade RoR type of scheme located just downstream of Upallo Khimti Hydropower Project, 12MW located in Ramechhap district. The project components are located in left bank of Khimti Khola within Chuchure VDC. The project area is located between longitudes 86018’10”E to 86020’10”E and latitude 27038’20” N to 27039’55” N.
Water is taken from the Khimti River at the intake of the Upallo Khimti and is passed through the Upallo Khimti project Powerhouse and delivered directly to the Intake of the Upper Khimti project. The only source of water for the Upper Khimti project is that which passes through the Power Station of the Upallo Khimti project, albeit supplemented to a small degree with additional water from a small tributary joined with Khimti below the HW of Upallo Khimti and diverted into the Intake of the Upper Khimti Powerhouse.
The following table shows the basic feature of the project:
Feature / UKHP-II HEPInstalled Capacity / 7 MW
Gross Head / 145.0 m
Annual Saleable Energy / 42.29GWh
Design Discharge / 6.45 m3/s
Degree of Flow Exceedence / 40%
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1.2Schematic Diagram
1.2.1Schematic Diagram of Upallo Khimti Hydroelectric Project-12 MW
1.2.2Schematic Diagram of Upper Khimti Hydroelectric Project-7 MW
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1.3The Parties
The project entities are listed below.
1.3.1Employer
Himalaya Urja Bikash Company Limited (HUBCL)
Subhidhanagar, Tinkune-35, Kathmandu,
Nepal
1.3.2Consultant
Clean Energy Consultants Pvt. Ltd
Anamanagar Kathmandu,
Nepal
1.3.3Lot 1 Contractor
Lot-1 Contracts includes infrastructure development works such as Access road construction, camp house construction, construction power and other related works.
1.3.4Lot 2 Contractor
Lot - 2 includes all the contracts related to Civil Works and the Contractor has not decided yet.
1.3.5Lot 3 Contractor
Lot - 3 includes all the contracts related to Electromechanical Works and the Contractor has not decided yet. The tender document has already prepared. The tender will be announced soon.
1.3.6Lot 4 Contractor
Lot - 4 includes all the contracts related to Hydro-mechanical Works and the Contractor has not decided yet. The tender document has already prepared. The tender will be announced soon.
2Key Dates
The following are the key dates: -
S.N / Development and Progress Details / Dates12 MW / 7MW
1 / Capacity Upgrade and received newLicense from DoED / 2066 Jestha 20
/ 2067 Ashadh 17
2 / IEE Approved / 2067 Shrawan 21 / 2071 Ashadh 24
3 / PPA signed for the project with NEA / 2067 Magh 09 / 2069 Chaitra 09
4 / Consulting Agreement has been signed with CEC / 2071 Jestha 31 / 2071 Jestha 31
5 / Generation License / 2069 Jestha 09 / 2071 Chaitra 13
6 / Financial closure / 2071 Mangsir 23 / 2071 Chaitra 3
7 / Track opening for Access Road Construction started / 2071 Chaitra 11
8 / RCOD / 2072 Kartik 30 / 2074 Jestha 30
3Monthly Report Executive Summary
3.1Introduction
Monthly Report No. 1 has been prepared by the Technical Team up to end of Shrawan 2072.
3.2General
The Company is continuing with the land acquisition and track opening of Access road. The various protection works on the road is continue. Staff recruitment has been done, but still more will be recruited to start of the construction work in full fledged from Mangsir 2072.
Construction monitoring and oversight continues with the presence of the technical staff at site. Now, one Project Manager,one Civil Engineer,oneAssistance Surveyor andone Sub Overseer form the technical parts followed by Administrative Manager, one Account, one Admin Assistance are working at site. The number of construction management staff at site is expected to increase significantly at site after the rainy season as work will be expedited soon.
3.3Engineering Design
With the appointment of CEC as designed consultant the updated feasibility of both project has completed on datedJestha 31, 2071. The consultant are preparing details project reports and drawing for construction.
3.4Effect of Earthquake in Project
In 12th Baisakh2072 Nepal earthquake(also known as theGorkha earthquake)killed more than nine thousands people and injured many people. After first earth quake, working team has demobilized form the site on 15 Baiskak, but team was re-mobilized on 26 Baishak. Unfortunately, a major aftershockoccurred on 29th Baisakh 2072.The epicenter was Sunkhani, Dolakha which is near our projects site. It is human nature and difficult to hold the staff at site, then site staffs demobilized on 1st Jestha 2072. Company able to re-mobilize the staff at site only on 16th Jestha.
The earthquake and its after sucks make the disturbance in the project more than one month’s directly. All the camp building rented and renovated were damaged by earthquake. The site staffs were mobilized at site on 16th Jeatha but it was very difficult time to continue the work at site. Lack of accommodation facilities, psychology of working people made difficult to continue the work effectively. Immediately after that rainy season started. Approximately two months of working time is disturbed due to earth quake. Fortunately, there is not any major destruction like landslide on the headwork, alignment and powerhouse besides one land slide.
4Land Acquisition and Access Road Construction
4.1Land Acquisition
Upallo Khimti HEP-12 MW
The land acquisition works nearly completed for pipe alignment and access road of UKHP. The total area of private land need to be procured was 32-2-3-2. Out of this 30-3-1-0 is already procured. The rest of land area is public land and need to be leased form the GoN which is under progress.
Upallo Khimti HEP-7 MW
The land acquisition works nearly completed for pipe alignment and access road of UKHP. The total area of private land need to be procured was 42-8-2-3 Out of this 39-9-1-0 is already procured. The rest of land area is public land and need to be leased form the GoN which is under progress.
4.2Land Leasing
The land leasing and clearance for the forest already proceeded. The entire document for the processes is already submitted. Now document is under revision at Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.
4.3Access Road Construction
The access road construction was started on 11 Chaitra 2071. The road construction is done by Company itself. Out of 8.5km access road approximately 5 km track opening is already completed and 1.5 km road has already gravelled and prepared for all weather.
There are two khola crossing called Chake and Garjung. Causeway construction work at Chake Khola has already completed. The hume pipe causeway has constructed using hume pipe, gabion and masonry. River training works at Garjyang has also done for this rainy session, but the strengthening and making of gabion causeway will be done after rainy season.
The cross drainage work is also being at different Chainage. Details of cross drainage work completed are presented in the table4.1.
Table: 4.1Details of Cross Drainage works
S.N. / Chainage / RC Pipe Ø / Remarks (Location) / Remarks1 / 0+040 / 120 Ø / Chake Khola
2 / 0+060 / 60 Ø / Chake Khola
3 / 0+228 / 40 Ø / Kholsi
4 / 0+280 / 40 Ø / Kholsi
5 / 0+395 / 40 Ø / Kholsi
6 / 0+475 / 60 Ø / Kholsi
7 / 0+588 / 60 Ø / Khola
8 / 1+188 / 40 Ø / Sub-surface drainage
9 / 1+220 / 90 Ø / Khola
Protection work at for the land slide is being near chainage of 1+500. The gabion and catch drain is constructing for this. The construction of catch drain is almost completed but gabion construction work is continue.
5Camp House Construction
All the camp house and office constructed and rented are destroyed during the devastation earthquake. The company has already constructed the temporary camp at Gargang Village of Chuchure VDC for the temporary purpose after the big earthquake. All the site staff are living on the same building now.
For the permanent camp house, company has already procured the land near Jifasa Villange of Chuchure VDC. The location is near by the powerhouse area of UKHP and intake of UKHP-II. Construction of camp house will be started soon under Lot-1 contract. The contractor has already selected and mobilized at site on date 8th Bhadra 2072.
6Construction Power
6.1Study of Reliability of Power Available at Site
Power availability and reliability study was conducted from 6th Shrawan 2072 to 11th Shrawan 2072 for site. Study included condition of existing 11 kV Jiri –Those feeder, available power sources at Jiri 33/11 KV substation and at Charikot 33/11 KV substation. Study also included power availability at site for construction works during off peak time and peak time (5:30 PM -9:30 PM), frequency of occurrence of fault in existing 11 kV feeder from which we are planning to tap for our energy requirements. From overall, data collected at Jiri substation, it was seen that power is available for our requirement during off peak time and reliability is also seen satisfactory.Even though, some rectification works such as bush cutting, maintain of line to ground clearance, stay installation and other minor works has to carry out for making existing 11 kV line more reliable. This is will be carried out during installation of 11 KV line for our construction works.
6.2Procurement of Material
Document to request quotation for materialsof construction power has already been prepared and issued to potential suppliers for Mechanical items, Electrical items, Conductor and ABC cable and for distribution transformers. Purchase order of construction power materials will be issued soon.
6.3Construction of Construction Power
Construction of construction power is in initial stage. Preliminary survey was conducted along the alignment of UKHP, 12 MW and UKHP-II, 7 MW projects for 11 KV Line to verify BoQ provided by the consultant. It is planning to install 11 KV lines for the projects in coordination with NEA’s DCS office Jiri and Charikot. Construction power construction schedule has also been prepared.
7Civil Works
7.1Preliminary Works
No Preliminary works have been done.
7.2Tender Documents
The tender documents preparation works is being and the tender will be announced after tender document is ready.
7.3Construction Materials Survey
Technical team of Himalaya Urja Bikash Company has visited the possible sources of construction materials especially for course and fine aggregate its quantity and quality. Basically two sites, Male and Olane, are selected. Both course (boulder from course aggregate) and fine aggregate are available at Mela, whereas only fine aggregate are available at Olane. However lab test of these materials has not done till yet.
7.4Detailed Time Programme
The preliminary Detailed Schedule is prepared for the civil works construction which is attached in Appendix-2.
8Lot 3 Contract – Electromechanical Works
8.1Preliminary Works
No Preliminary works have been done.
8.2Tender Documents
Final tender document preparation has been completed. International Invitation to Bid for Electro-Mechanical works will be announced soon only for shortlisted suppliers.
9Lot 4 Contract – Hydro Mechanical Works
9.1Preliminary Works
No Preliminary works have been done.
9.2Procurement of Metals
Latter of Credit has already opened on date 29th June 2015 for the procurement of metals plate. Based on that LC date, expected dispatch of metal plates from factory for hydro mechanical works will be on 15th September 2015.
9.3Tender Documents
The tender documents for installation and fabrication is ready and will be announced soon.
10Human Resources
10.1Technical Team
The technical personnel shown in the following table have been recurred and are presentedup to current reporting period. The company is planning to recur the other technical as per requirement in the future.
Table: 10.1 Technical Staff
S.N / Name / Position / Assigned from / Assigned at1 / Ram Hari Dhakal / Project Manager / 09/03/2072 / Site Office
2 / Susheel Sharma / Assistant Manager / 03/03/2072 / Head Office
3 / Kapil Acharya / Project Engineer / 30/11/2070 / Site Office
4 / Bikram Khawas / Engineer / 01/12/2071 / Head Office
5 / Yam Lal Tharu / Electrical Engineer / 16/01/2072 / Head Office
6 / Sujan Shrestha / Engineer / 19/12/2071 / Site Office
7 / Rabin Bhattarai / Assistant Sub-Engineer / 10/11/2071 / Site Office
8 / Rina Bista / Sub-Oversear / 07/11/2071 / Site Office
9 / Prem Bahadur Khadka / Senior Supervisor / 11/12/2071 / Site Office
10.2Administrative Staff
The company has employed administrative staff as mention on table below up to thereporting period.
Table10.2 List of Administrative Staff
S.N / Name / Position / Assigned from / Assigned at1 / Prakash Dulal / Manager / 02/01/2066 / Head Office
2 / Santosh Kumar Bhattarai / Admin Manager / 01/01/2072 / Site Office
3 / Surya Prakash Pathak / Finance Manager / 21/08/2071 / Head Office
4 / Khagendra Pandey / Senior Officer / 01/01/2071 / Head Office
5 / Jyoti Kafle / Officer / 16/09/2071 / Head Office
6 / Arjun Pathak / Officer / 23/12/2071 / Head Office
7 / Prabin Thapa / Account Officer / 06/01/2071 / Head Office
8 / Santosh Adhikari / Accountant / 01/07/2065 / Head Office
9 / Sameer Man Rajbansi / Accountant / 25/09/2071 / Site Office
10 / Kirti Timilshna / Receptionist / 04/09/2071 / Head Office
11 / Sobha Khatiwada / Admin Assistant / 17/11/2071 / Head Office
12 / Ballav Basnet / Legal Advisor / 06/09/2071 / Head Office
13 / Pradip Kumar Khadka / Junior Supervisor / 11/12/2071 / Site Office
14 / Bhakta Bahadur Karki / Excavator Operator / 26/10/2071 / Site Office
15 / Bishnu Bahadur Khadka / Excavator Operator / 12/12/2071 / Site Office
16 / Lhatull Sherpa / Excavator Operator / 29/10/2071 / Site Office
17 / Krishna Prasad Ghimire / Head Cook / 16/10/2071 / Site Office
18 / Surya Kusule / BackLoader Operator / 01/01/2071 / Site Office
19 / Bina Khadka / Admin Assistant / 01/12/2071 / Site Office
20 / Rajesh Thakuri / Light Driver / 17/10/2071 / Site Office
21 / Tika Basnet / Light Driver / 25/10/2071 / Site Office
22 / Tilak Kumari Khadka / Office Assistant / 07/11/2071 / Site Office
23 / Naniram Basnet / Office Assistant / 01/12/2071 / Site Office
24 / Samar Karki / Helper / 11/12/2071 / Site Office
25 / Choodamani Dahal / Driver / 12/11/2065 / Head Office
26 / Mohan Lamshal / Peon / NA / Head Office
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11Social Mitigation
The company has allocated some budget in IEE for the social responsibility. Till date the company has already signed the MOU with the following institution for the intuitional support of those local institutions
- Bhale Pokhari Primary School, Chuchure-1, Ramechhap
- Pathivara Primary School, Shyamaa-3, Dolakha
- Jatteswari Higher Secondary School, Chuchure-2, Ramechhap
- Chuchure Health Post, Garjyang Chuchure-2, Ramechhap
- Garjyang Savings & Credit Co-operative Ltd. Chuchure-1, Ramechhap
- Gumba located in Garjyang Village
12Financial Status
The financial agreement was signed with consortium bank lead by Nabil Bank including Nepal Bank, Everest Bank and Ace Development Bank on 23 Masigar 2071 for UKHP, 12 and on 3 Chaitra 2071 for UKHP-II, 7MW.Based on the consortium agreement, details cost breakdown for individual particular is presented in table 12.1.
Table 12.1: Summary of Budget Details
S.N / Particulars / UKHP,12MW in Nrs '000 / UKHP-II,7MW in Nrs. '000 / Total (UKHP,12MW+UKHP-II,7MW) in Nrs. '000 / Remarks1 / Pre-Operating/Development Cost / 54,220.00 / 17,500.00 / 71,720.00
2 / Report Preparation and Field Investigation / 7,966.50 / 7,966.50 / 15,933.00
3 / Infrastructure Development / 40,866.29 / 22,500.63 / 63,366.92
4 / Camping Facilities / 10,012.43 / 9162.49 / 19,174.93
5 / Vehicle / 10,400.00 / 4200.00 / 14,600.00
6 / Land Purchase and Lease / 33,516.02 / 23,478.86 / 56,994.87
7 / Office Equipment / 3,350.00 / 3,350.00 / 6,700.00
8 / Civil Construction / 459,040.65 / 347,611.52 / 806,652.17
9 / Metal Works / 444,732.30 / 278,639.08 / 723,371.38
10 / Electro-mechanical Equipment / 392,270.70 / 244,796.72 / 637,067.42
11 / Interconnection Equipment / 47,474.50 / 54,646.18 / 102,120.69
12 / Transmission line / 60,468.53 / 22,187.47 / 82,656.00
13 / Engineering & Management / 79,602.50 / 35,450.50 / 115,053.00
14 / Social and Environment Cost / 22,245.43 / 11,074.00 / 33,319.43
15 / Project Insurance during Construction / 6,878.59 / 4,620.50 / 11,499.09
16 / Miscellaneous / 31,584.63 / 10,232.74 / 41,817.37
17 / Interest During Construction / 209,450.12 / 134,841.23 / 344,291.35
Total with Financing / 1,914,079.19 / 1,232,258.42 / 3,146,337.619
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