Chera-1
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- 2026-05-13
Chera-1 is a 149 MW JICA promising-storage candidate in the Karnali basin. It is pinned in Layer: Storage Shortlist.
Summary
Chera-1 is a 149 MW planning-stage storage candidate in the Karnali basin. The page records its JICA/NEA shortlist metrics, including annual energy, dry-season energy, and storage volume, for comparison with other storage candidates.
Specifications
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 149 MW |
| Category | jica promising storage |
| Basin | Karnali (Karnali Basin) |
| Annual energy | 563.2 GWh |
| Dry-season energy | 120.6 GWh |
| Dry share | 21.4% |
| Total storage | 254.9 MCM |
| Effective storage | 141.1 MCM |
Sources
Why It Matters
Chera-1 offers 563.2 GWh of annual energy with 120.6 GWh of dry-season output (21.4% dry share) — a meaningful contribution to Karnali-basin firming, though its storage volumes are more modest than the larger shortlist candidates on the Karnali main stem.
Status And Timing
Chera-1 should be read as a planning / promising-storage candidate surfacing from the JICA/NEA storage master plan. The IPSDP milestone ladder may place it in a later windows (2031–2040). There is no confirmed construction start in the current wiki evidence set.
Limitations & Controversies
The map marker is a river-aligned project reference. Use it for basin-level and strategic comparison, not for final dam-axis coordinates.
The current evidence supports planning-stage comparison, not a confirmed construction programme. Design maturity, licensing status, financing, social/environmental review, final location, and COD timing require source-level verification before project-specific analysis.
Registry note
- JICA/NEA storage master plan volume 2