Despite flash floods damaging hydropower projects and disrupting electricity evacuation in Nepal in August , the country exported electricity worth over Rs 725 crore to India in the two months that followed, data provided by the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) shows.

Between August 27, a day after the floods hit Nepal, and October 27, the country exported around 1,262 million units (MU) of electricity to India, the NEA data showed. This was equivalent to nearly a third of the electricity Nepal exported to India during the financial year 2025-26.

The continued exports came despite apprehensions among Indian government officials about possible disruptions to electricity supplies from Nepal, given the damage to several hydropower plants, including the 14-MW Devighat hydropower plant, which supplies electricity to India.

In September, the Union Ministry of Power had also approved the Nepal government’s request for early imports of electricity from India, saying that the “floods have caused significant…