Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.

Yet, Chinese engineers are not stopping there; they're planning an even larger dam. The Medog Dam, set to rise across the Brahmaputra river, aims to produce a staggering 300 billion kilowatt-hours ...

A gigantic hydroelectric project is predicted to provide power for more than 300 million homes when it is completed - but it comes at an eye-watering cost ...

The dam’s construction will require people to be relocated, though likely not as many as Three Gorges, which uprooted and moved 1.4 million people. The Medog dam will be bigger, but it’s in a more ...

But the authorities in China are setting their sights on an even more gargantuan project, to be called the Medog Dam. Set to overshadow its predecessor, this behemoth is planned for construction ...

China is constructing a 60,000 megawatt “super dam” on the Yarlung Tsangpo river—the Brahmaputra’s upper reaches—in Tibet’s ...

Last month, China approved the construction of its most ambitious – and the world’s largest – dam over the Yarlung Zangbo, in Tibet’s Medog county, right before it enters Indian territory.

What is known is that the dam will be in Medog County in Tibet, in a steep canyon where the river makes a horseshoe turn known as the Great Bend, then falls about 6,500 feet over roughly 30 miles.

But in the case of the Medog project (named after the region), it appears that there will be a dam. Nobody knows where exactly the dam will be built or, more importantly, how high it will be.

In December 2024, China unveiled plans for what could become the world’s largest hydropower project, the Medog Dam, on the lower Yarlung Zangbo River, known as the Brahmaputra in India.

Hence, the Medog dam on the bend of the Yarlung Zangbo (Brahmaputra) has caused unease among the Indian strategic community. The blocking of normal flow to maintain headwaters to operate a mega ...