India to supply Nepal electricity after floods wrecked hydropower projects

India to supply Nepal with 654 megawatts of energy regular to conscionable urgent needs aft devastating glacial floods.

India has approved the expedited export of energy to neighbouring Nepal to assistance it flooded shortages caused by extended harm to hydropower infrastructure from devastating floods past month.

In a connection connected Monday, India’s Ministry of Power said up to 654 megawatts of energy would beryllium transmitted for 18 hours per time until December 31.

“The support volition assistance Nepal conscionable its powerfulness requirements during this hard play and further fortify the adjacent and longstanding vigor practice betwixt India and Nepal,” it said.

It added that successful December it would besides reappraisal the magnitude of powerfulness to beryllium exported from January.

The flooding, triggered connected August 26 by a glacial upland illness connected the China-Nepal border, killed much than 1,400 radical successful Nepal and Tibet.

At slightest 12 hydropower projects successful Nepal were hit, with astatine slightest 900 powerfulness presumption workers among the much than 5,500 radical still missing successful the country.

Almost 100 percent of the country’s vigor needs were met by hydropower earlier the floods hit. Since then, Nepal has been forced to import energy aft years of exporting surplus vigor to India.

People transverse a stream via a zip enactment successful the aftermath of flash floods astatine Trishuli successful Nepal’s Nuwakot territory connected September 11, 2026 [Prakash Mathema/AFP]

Thousands of displaced radical are sheltering successful assistance centres, with small anticipation of returning location soon. The United Nations and its partners are appealing for astir $50m to assistance survivors.

Nepali officials accidental astatine slightest $5bn is needed for archetypal rebuilding, adding that the catastrophe shows however clime alteration has deed mediocre countries that did small to origin it.

The ‌Himalayas, wherever Nepal is nestled, are approaching a tipping constituent arsenic glaciers melt ⁠faster than a decennary ⁠ago, threatening h2o information arsenic the portion approaches “peak water” by mid-century, according to a survey released this month.