Giving Compass' Take:

• This podcast explores the potential for micro-hydro minigrids to bring power to communities in rural Nepal.

• How can funders help communities make decisions about what is best for their power supply? 

• Read about the costs and benefits of hydropower. 

Researchers are investigating a method of creating power from fast moving streams that many rural areas in Nepal use.

They’re looking into why some of these systems work better than others, and whether they could be useful in other countries.

80 percent of the geography of Nepal is composed of mountain ranges like Annapurna, making the big power grids that we take for granted in the developed world an impossibility in much of Nepal.

But rather than fight against their geography, many of these communities have discovered a way to use the mountains to their advantage, harnessing the power of the fast-flowing mountain streams for power using a system called a micro-hydro minigrid.

Read the full article about micro-hydro minigrids in Nepal at Futurity.