Assessing Hydropower Potential in Nepal’s Sunkoshi River Basin: An Integrated GIS and SWAT Hydrological Modeling Approach

Table 6

Classification of estimated hydropower project Q40 in the Sunkoshi basin.

Hydropower project category based on capacity (MW)	No. of sites	Total power (MW)	% power
≤1	5	2.78	0.74
>1 and ≤10	16	102.04	27.48
>10 and ≤50	15	266.48	71.77
Total	36	371.29	100