China’s Power Crisis Could Reach a Himalayan Scale

That’s important, because these rivers provide a large slice of the clean energy set to be installed over the coming decade. While China’s current crop of dams are likely to be the last it builds for many years, India has about 29 gigawatts on the way, with another 13 gigawatts in neighboring Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan. Nine more gigawatts will come from Vietnam and Laos, heavily dependent on the Tibetan Plateau-fed Mekong, according to the International Energy Agency.