Nepal Energy Wiki

This is a source-linked guide to Nepal's electricity system: its projects and rivers, the grid that connects them, the markets that value electricity, and the institutions that shape delivery.

Use Find to locate a project, claim, source or question. Use the Map to see how infrastructure and river geography fit together. Use the links inside each page to follow an argument back to its evidence.

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Understand the electricity system

Begin with State of Nepal's Electricity System for the neutral, dated baseline. Then follow the five-minute sequence below to understand why capacity, seasonal output, delivery and flexibility must be read together.

Explore a project or place

Search a project, river, basin or transmission corridor in Find, or select it from the Map. Project records state what is known about status and specifications; linked source notes show where those statements came from.

Check a claim or number

Search the wording or subject, open the relevant claim or data page, then follow its evidence links. Read the confidence, cutoff date and caveats before repeating a figure. Unresolved Questions records important gaps the public evidence does not yet resolve.

Understand the system in five minutes

1. State of the System — the dated public baseline, kept separate from editorial interpretation.
2. Seasonal Mismatch — why annual water abundance does not produce the same electricity in every season.
3. Transmission and Cross-Border Trade — how electricity reaches domestic users and external markets.
4. Storage and Flexibility — why installed megawatts are not the same as dependable power.
5. Institutions, Finance and Project Delivery — how rules, financing and execution shape what gets built and operated.

For TransparentGov's explicitly editorial interpretation, continue to Master Thesis, Bottleneck Hierarchy and Twenty-Year Strategy. These pages interpret the evidence; they are not the neutral baseline.

Prefer to watch first? The 16-minute film Nepal Has Hydropower. Why Isn't It Enough? tells the seasonal story; Film Evidence: Nepal Has Hydropower. Why Isn't It Enough? maps each of its claims to the evidence here.

Explore the major subjects

• Hydropower and rivers: Nepal's Hydropower System, Run-of-River Hydropower, Hydropower Potential Categories, Sediment as Design Constraint.
• Grid and trade: Transmission and Cross-Border Electricity Trade, Distribution and Reliability, India — Energy Relationship with Nepal, Stranded Generation.
• Storage, solar and demand: Storage and System Flexibility, Solar in Nepal's Electricity System, Demand and Electrification, Solar–Hydro Complementarity.
• Projects and places: Upper Tamakoshi, Budhigandaki Hydroelectric Project, Dudhkoshi Storage Hydroelectric Project, Koshi Basin. Use Find for the full project directory.
• Governance and evidence: Institutions, Finance and Project Delivery, Decision Dossiers and Policy Options, Map Inventory, Unresolved Questions.

How the evidence works

• Records describe projects, places, organisations and datasets.
• Source notes state what a document provides and what it does not establish.
• Claims and analysis make bounded arguments with confidence, caveats and linked evidence.
• Syntheses connect those arguments into a wider interpretation.

A mapped project is not automatically a verified project. A linked source does not automatically prove every nearby sentence. Follow the evidence trail and check the page's maturity label: Verified Core, Working Page or Registry Record. Wiki Page Maturity explains these labels.

Use Find and the Map together

Find is the quickest route to a named project, concept, claim, dataset or source. The Map is the spatial companion: its lenses show rivers, geopolitics, the power system and solar context. Map Layer Labels explains what each layer represents and what should not be inferred from it.

Opening a mapped feature loads its wiki record. Opening a spatially bound page focuses the relevant map context. Pages without a meaningful location remain readable without forcing a map view.

What remains unknown

The wiki leaves evidence gaps visible. Project status can differ across registries, companies, lenders and media reports, while some operational and financial records are not available as consolidated public data. Unresolved Questions maintains the current list rather than filling missing evidence with an estimate.

Related

State of Nepal's Electricity System · Master Thesis · Map Layer Labels · Wiki Page Maturity · Unresolved Questions