Upper Bhotekoshi

Summary

Upper Bhotekoshi is a 45 MW operating Bhote Koshi run-of-river project used in the wiki as a high-confidence operating marker in the priority-watchlist layer.

Upper Bhotekoshi is a 45 MW operating project on the Bhote Koshi in Sindhupalchok. It is pinned in the Layer: Priority Watchlist not because it is large, but because it is a useful reality-check marker: an existing high-gradient Koshi-basin plant where the river valley, operating status, and project geography are legible.

Specifications

Why It Matters

Upper Bhotekoshi is part of the operating hydro fleet that grounds the wiki's map layers in real assets rather than only future projects. It shows the classic Himalayan run-of-river logic: steep relief, compact valley geometry, and generation that depends on river flow rather than large seasonal storage.

Its watchlist role is methodological. When the map displays dozens of survey-stage records, Upper Bhotekoshi is one of the markers that helps calibrate what an operating point looks like in the source data.

Status And Timing

The project is already operating. There is no construction-start or finish-date issue to track in this layer context. The relevant updates are operational performance, outage history, flood/sediment exposure, and how Bhote Koshi valley generation connects into the eastern grid.

Map Interpretation

The marker is an operating-project registry point near the mapped river and is labeled as a higher-confidence site point in the priority-watchlist layer.

Limitations & Controversies

The page confirms operating status and map role but does not provide a full outage history, sediment/flood exposure record, annual generation series, ownership history, or detailed evacuation-connection assessment.

Registry note

• Naxa / DoED-linked public hydropower project dataset

Sources

• NEA Annual Report FY 2024/25

See also

• Koshi Basin
• Run-of-River Hydropower
• Stranded Generation
• Layer: Priority Watchlist