Is small-scale hydro the answer to India's clean energy needs?

India wants to encourage more privately owned, small-scale hydropower projects to cut its climate emissions, but questions about environmental impacts remainIn the western Himalayas, the entire village of Hamal is powered by a small hydroelectric plant on the edge of the Shalvi river. Producing 2MW per hour, the plant provides enough power to light up 100 homes at a time, ending the village’s once-endemic power cuts.
Small hydro projects, producing up to 25MW per hour, have the potential t