The Medog Dam, set to rise across ... Yet, while this mammoth project is set to propel China towards its carbon neutrality goal by 2060, it's not without its fair share of global controversy.

But China’s Medog project on the ‘Great Bend’ of the Yarlung Tsangpo river — the upstream part of the Brahmaputra river — is being viewed with trepidation by India and several other ...

China’s Medog Dam project presents a dual-edged sword for South Asia. While it showcases the potential of renewable energy, it also underscores the urgent need for cooperative transboundary ...

China is the world leader in hydropower deployment, accounting for almost a third of global hydropower capacity. Many of those dams are on the Yangtze (some of them built by robots!) and some are on ...

China says it will build a dam in Medog, a remote county in Tibet, that could generate three times as much electricity as the Three Gorges Dam.

A proposed dam in China’s Medog county would be the world’s largest hydroelectric project, surpassing even China’s Three Gorges Dam, which is currently the largest dam in the world. The Yarlung ...

Medog in China is the country's most remote and isolated in Southwestern China, and requires visitors to apply for permission to travel there. By Holly Kintuka, Audience Writer.

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.

The story so far: T he ambitious plan to build a mega-hydropower dam across the Brahmaputra at the Great Bend region of the Medog county in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) in China, has been ...

The Medog dam project will grant China major control over the Brahmaputra’s flow, affecting water availability downstream. The Yarlung Tsangpo, originating from the Tibetan Plateau, flows into India ...