On 24 May 2024, CEMSOJ inaugurated a 4-kW Sisneri Peltric Set Pico Hydropower Project at Chyaurang village of Raksirang rural municipality in remote hills of Makawanpur district in southern Nepal. The project will bring stable electricity for at least 37 Indigenous Tamang and Chepang households in Chyaurang, Bhyalche, Tikuti and other villages of Ward no. 9 of the rural municipality.

Upon request of the Sisneri Peltric Set Project Users’ Committee, the project was reconstructed and upgraded under Phase 3 of CEMSOJ‘s Community-based Renewable Energy Project (CbREP) initiative. Feasibility study for the project was undertaken on 17 and 18 January 2024.

Heartfelt gratitude to the Users’ Committee and the communities for putting their trust on us and labour and financial contribution through for the project. Thanks to generous support of Pawanka Fund for the project and facilitation of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Network on Extractive Industries and Energy (AIPNEE) and Right Energy Partnership with Indigenous Peoples (REP). Also, thanks to Tiba: Nepa: Engineering Concern for producing and supplying the equipment and providing technical services for the project.

See pictures from the feasibility study and inauguration of the project below.