Largest hydropower plants in Nepal
189 hydro records for Nepal carry a capacity figure: 31.4 GW in total, 3.2 GW of it operating across 60 records. Operating and announced are ranked separately. Every row links to its record and its public source; the country as a whole is on the Nepal market page.
Largest operating hydropower plants in Nepal
Watch Nepal hydro. One email when a project on this ranking moves stage, is corrected, or a larger one is added.
Under construction or announced
The Nepal hydro records as a file
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Questions about hydro in Nepal
What is the largest hydropower plant in Nepal?+
The largest operating hydropower plant on record in Nepal is Upper Tamakoshi hydroelectric plant at 456 MW, developed by Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA). Ranked by the capacity figure in the public source named on the record, whole project rather than any partner's share.
What is the largest hydropower plant planned in Nepal?+
Sapta Koshi High Dam hydroelectric plant at 3,000 MW, at development stage. Of the 31.4 GW of hydro on record for Nepal, 3.2 GW is operating; the rest is announced or being built.
How many hydropower plants does Nepal have?+
Solandor holds 189 hydro records for Nepal with a stated capacity, 60 of them operating. That is the public record from the datasets named on each row, not a census: small plants below tracker thresholds are missing from the sources and so from here.