Nepal: Sixteen hours DAILY load shedding likely

The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) officials have said that they could increase the daily load shedding hours from 12 hours currently to 16 hours from as early as Sunday.
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Bhat said the primary reason for the scaling up in load shedding hours is due to receding water flow in rivers, which has severely limited the generation capacity of most of the hydro projects.

The NEA has said that while the peak demand has risen to around 800 MW, it is able to supply less than 300 MW.

load-shedding: Definition from Answers.com

A procedure in which parts of an electric power system are disconnected in an attempt to prevent failure of the entire system due to overloading.