More than 10% of Nepal’s energy generation capacity was knocked out by last week’s floods, highlighting the risks of the country’s heavy reliance on hydropower.
The disruption affected a significant share of Nepal’s ability to generate energy. The scale of the outage shows how flooding can quickly undermine the system when so much generation capacity is concentrated in hydropower.
Nepal has bet heavily on hydropower, but the floods have exposed a major vulnerability in that strategy. Damage or disruption linked to extreme flooding can reduce available generation capacity and put pressure on the country’s energy supply.
The information available does not provide further details about the affected facilities, the duration of the outages or the steps being taken to restore capacity. What is known is that last week’s floods removed more than 10% of Nepal’s energy generation capacity, underscoring the risks of relying so extensively on hydropower.
