"How China Is Building the Impossible $167B Medog hydropower station in Tibet region of capacity 60GW, that Triples Three Gorges (22 GW) Power and 77x Idukki dam. (0.76 GW)"
The video covers the Medog Hydropower Station, China's mega-project on the lower Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, which is being built as five cascade dams along a steep Himalayan gorge at the river's dramatic "Great Bend," with a projected installed capacity of roughly 60 GW and annual generation of up to 300 billion kWh.
Construction officially began on 19 July 2025, with commercial operations planned for 2033, at a total investment exceeding 1.2 trillion yuan (roughly $170 billion).
The site sits just 30 km from the contested India border, near where the river makes a dramatic U-turn around Namcha Barwa Peak, plunging nearly 2,000 meters over a 50-km stretch — the "deepest canyon on Earth".
The project's output would roughly equal the UK's total annual power consumption and triple that of the 22.5 GW Three Gorges Dam, making it the largest hydropower station on Earth once complete. It also carries significant geopolitical weight: India and Bangladesh worry that unilateral upstream flow regulation could worsen dry-season water scarcity or create flash-flood risks, since more than 130 million people in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, and Bangladesh depend on the Brahmaputra–Jamuna basin.
Chinese officials maintain the dams are run-of-river and won't meaningfully cut cross-border flows, though transparency on reservoir operations remains limited.
https://youtu.be/wjL7r4NglPA?si=qaWdRPr9ftfJF5Aj
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