Himalayan hydropower projects increase landscape vulnerability and can amplify floods and landslides, SANDRP’s Himanshu Thakkar warns in an interview.

Nepal hydropower resilience: August 2026 floods damaged roughly 10% of generation and prompted calls to add wind and solar to diversify supply and cut

Nepal hydropower floods have left more than 1,000 dead and about 4,000 missing; survivors and rescuers are searching tunnels and trying to reach trapped

Arnold Dix, a tunnel engineering professor, outlines the technical and logistical challenges rescuers face in the Nepal hydropower tunnel rescue and the

Late August 2026 floods in Nepal and nearby China damaged hydropower, cutting about 10% of Nepal’s capacity; experts urge risk-based rebuilding and alerts.

Nepal floods killed 903 people and left 4,247 missing in Nepal; at least 900 hydropower workers are unaccounted as rescuers try to reach tunnels.

Nepal hydropower losses from the Bhotekoshi floods may total hundreds of billions of rupees and have damaged at least 13 projects, straining insurers.

DOE H2O awarded $5.5 million to 11 national lab projects to streamline hydropower permitting with tools and datasets to speed licensing across the U.S.

NLR modeling for Grant PUD finds coordinated operation of seven Mid‑Columbia dams raises generation and yields about 3.3% higher revenue across the system.

Upper Trishuli-1 is a 216MW plant expected to generate 1.456 billion kWh annually; the Energy Ministry says it would raise Nepal’s generation by 20%.