[1] It is the first megawatt (MW) capacity hydropower station in Nepal.

[clarification needed] It is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric plant on the Roshi Khola river.

It was built in 1965 with the assistance from then Soviet Union at a cost of NRs 27 million.

m/s from headwork to reservoir has seven (7) outlet gates for irrigation in the vicinity of Khopasi.

After the major improvement activities accomplished in 2018/019 ( Rehabilitation and Modernization of Switchyards of Panauti Hydropower Station located at Khopasi and Bhakatpur ), Panauti Hydropower Station is generating maximum annual energy (in 2018/19) which the power plant had not been able to do since the last 11 years.