Nepal, May 8 -- Nepal's hot water springs have great potential as a renewable geothermal energy source that generates low levels of greenhouse gases. While hydropower generation can fluctuate with seasonal water availability and solar power depends on weather conditions, geothermal resources provide stable baseload power throughout the year.

Additionally-without entirely shifting focus to large hydropower projects, which cause significant ecological disruption-or to hydrogen systems, which, although promising as energy carriers, are not yet viable at a large scale-Nepal must parallelly prioritise revitalising hot springs in remote, economically disadvantaged regions. The local communities in such areas can benefit from improved energy ac...