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Electronics, energy and space

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21 stories · 23 Aug 2026 to 10 Oct 2026

Where are electronics, communication and energy engineering heading?

The hardware side of engineering is being pulled in two directions at once: towards ever smaller and more specialised chips, and towards very large systems such as power grids, satellite networks and electric-vehicle charging. Nepal sits close to both, as a hydropower exporter, a fast-growing electric-vehicle market and a country that depends on mobile networks. This section follows the stories that change what an electronics, communication or information engineer will design, test or maintain, with the source for each and a note on what it means for a BEI student.

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Electronics, energy & space · 6 min read

Nepal Telecom to lay 2,216 km of fibre in Gandaki and Lumbini

A Rs 2.01 billion rural fund grant will carry fibre broadband to 194 local levels and 432 mobile towers in two provinces within three years.

For you: Fibre backhaul is what decides whether a hill-district tower gives usable 4G and, later, 5G. A project of this size needs engineers who can plan routes, splice and test fibre with an OTDR, configure DWDM and IP routing, and keep remote sites powered. These are core BEI topics in optical and data communication, and the routing side overlaps with BCT networking courses. Rural rollouts like this one are also where many Nepali telecom graduates get their first site jobs.

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Electronics, energy & space · 6 min read

Sodium-ion batteries scale up, but deliveries are still unconfirmed

CATL has added 40 GWh of sodium-ion capacity and signed a 60 GWh deal, yet no storage delivery had been independently confirmed by early October.

For you: Sodium-ion cells use no lithium or cobalt and work in cold weather, which could suit Nepal's hills and cheap home storage if prices fall. The current tender prices show they are not yet cheaper than lithium iron phosphate. Students should learn to separate announced targets from delivered products. For BEI projects, the practical point is that a different chemistry changes voltage curves and battery management settings, so charger and BMS design must be adjusted for each cell type.

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Electronics, energy & space · 6 min read

General Fusion heats plasma past 1 keV by squeezing it with metal

General Fusion's LM26 machine pushed plasma electrons above 12 million degrees Celsius using slow mechanical compression instead of lasers or magnets.

For you: Fusion experiments run on electronics. LM26 depends on pulsed-power circuits that dump huge currents in milliseconds, fast data acquisition and plasma diagnostics like Thomson scattering, which needed custom optics and timing to fit a cramped machine. These are instrumentation, power electronics and signal processing problems taught in BEI. Students should treat company timelines for net energy with caution; the measurable result here is the temperature, confirmed by two instruments and a national lab partner.

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Electronics, energy & space · 6 min read

India targets 1 billion 5G users by 2030 and claims 7,700 6G patents

At India Mobile Congress, the telecom minister said 5G users should double by 2030 and that India will host the ITU's top conference that year.

For you: India is Nepal's nearest large telecom market and a major employer of Nepali engineers. Its 5G expansion and 6G research create demand for radio planning, network operations, and RF and baseband design, which grow out of BEI communication courses. Patent counts show research intent, not products, so students should read them with care. Nepal still has no commercial 5G, so engineers with hands-on Indian 5G experience may be well placed when Nepal's own rollout happens.

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Electronics, energy & space · 6 min read

India's green hydrogen plants run far behind announced capacity

India has about 65 to 70 MW of electrolysers running against 25 GW announced, as weak demand and high costs slow big projects.

For you: Nepal has often discussed using surplus monsoon hydropower to make green hydrogen for fertiliser or transport. India's experience shows the bottleneck is cost and buyers, not only technology. An electrolyser is a large power-electronics load, so engineers who understand rectifiers, grid connection and the economics of running on cheap off-peak power will matter if Nepal tries it. Students writing a project or thesis on hydrogen should start from the cost gap these figures show.

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Electronics, energy & space · 5 min read

US approves construction of its first commercial small modular reactor

The NRC gave TVA a permit to build a 300 MW BWRX-300 small modular reactor in Tennessee after a 14-month review.

For you: Small modular reactors are being pitched to countries and industries that need steady power without building a gigawatt plant. Nepal has no nuclear plans, but the same story drives demand for engineers in instrumentation and control, grid protection and plant electrical design, fields that BEI and electrical graduates enter abroad. Civil engineers see it in containment and seismic structural work. The main lesson for students is that licensing, safety cases and standards take as long as the engineering, and that documentation skills matter.

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China's 2026-2030 battery plan targets solid-state cells by 2030

Seven Chinese agencies set goals for early large-scale use of all-solid-state batteries, 15,000-cycle lithium cells and parts-per-billion defect rates.

For you: Most batteries in Nepal's electric cars, e-scooters and home inverters come from Chinese factories, so Chinese targets set what will be on sale here. A 15,000-cycle cell would change the cost of solar-plus-storage for rural Nepal. For students, the growth area is not only chemistry but the battery management system: cell monitoring, balancing, thermal sensing and state-of-charge estimation. Those are embedded systems and power electronics topics in BEI, and a used-battery recycling rule will also matter as Nepal's early EV packs age.

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Electronics, energy & space · 5 min read

India expects 45 to 50 GWh of grid batteries within two years

India's grid battery storage jumps from about 1 GWh to a planned 45 to 50 GWh by 2028, though rising cell prices put some projects at risk.

For you: Batteries are being added to India's grid to move midday solar power into the evening peak, the same problem Nepal faces in reverse with dry-season evenings. Each project needs power conversion systems, battery management, protection and control software, which are BEI power electronics and control topics. Indian storage developers and integrators are hiring now. Nepal will likely add grid batteries alongside solar and hydro, and engineers who understand inverter control and grid codes will be needed here as well.

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Electronics, energy & space · 5 min read

SpaceX Starship reaches orbit and deploys 26 Starlink satellites

Starship's 14th flight was its first to reach orbit and first to deliver working satellites, though engine faults ended it about seven hours early.

For you: Starship is meant to launch the larger third-generation Starlink satellites in bulk, which shapes the cost and capacity of satellite internet in remote areas. Low-earth-orbit broadband will keep coming up in Nepal's telecom policy debates and in the work of its telecom operators. The engineering behind it, phased-array antennas, inter-satellite laser links and handover between fast-moving satellites, is advanced communication material that builds on BEI courses in antennas and wireless systems.

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Electronics, energy & space · 5 min read

Five million industrial robots now work in factories worldwide

The IFR's World Robotics 2026 report counts more than 600,000 new robots installed in 2025, with China taking 59 percent and India rising 15 percent.

For you: Every industrial robot needs people to integrate, program and maintain it: motor drives, PLCs, sensors, machine vision and safety interlocks. India's steady growth matters most for Nepali graduates, because Indian automotive and electronics plants hire integration and maintenance engineers and are a common first job abroad. Students can prepare with control systems, microcontroller and PLC programming, and a robotics or mechatronics project. Nepal's own factories are only starting to automate, so the skill is still uncommon here.

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Electronics, energy & space · 5 min read

Mercedes gets first access to ProLogium's Gen4 solid-state cells

ProLogium claims 400 Wh/kg and a 5 to 80 percent charge in 6.4 minutes for its new cells, which Mercedes will put through independent tests.

For you: Claims of 400 Wh/kg and six-minute charging are the kind of numbers students see in headlines. The useful habit is to ask who measured them and how: here they are the maker's own figures until Mercedes and outside labs report. Fast charging at this rate also means very high currents, so charger design, cooling and grid connection become the hard part. Those are power electronics and thermal problems that BEI graduates working on EV chargers in Nepal will meet.

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Electronics, energy & space · 5 min read

3GPP Madrid meeting sets 6G groundwork for Release 21

The September 3GPP plenary closed the 5G-Advanced Release 20 architecture and settled how early 6G networks will run alongside 5G.

For you: Students who enter a BEI programme now will graduate just as 6G specifications are written and the first trial networks appear. Topics named at this meeting, such as sensing built into the radio, AI inside the network and spectrum sharing between generations, are likely to shape telecom job descriptions in the 2030s. Reading 3GPP documents is a learnable skill, and the basics of OFDM, MIMO and protocol stacks taught in communication courses are the foundation for all of it.

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Electronics, energy & space · 5 min read

Odisha silicon carbide chip plant cleared for Rs 3,406 crore

SiCSem's planned plant near Bhubaneswar will make 91 million silicon carbide MOSFETs a year for EVs, chargers and solar inverters.

For you: Silicon carbide switches are what make fast EV chargers, efficient traction inverters and modern solar inverters possible, because they handle higher voltage and heat than silicon. A SiC fab close to Nepal means more regional jobs in device testing, process engineering and power-converter design. BEI students meet the basics in electronic devices and power electronics; learning how a MOSFET's switching losses shape a converter design is the practical skill these employers test for.

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Electronics, energy & space · 5 min read

Vega-C launches ESA's FLEX plant-glow satellite and Sentinel-3C

Europe's first Vega-C dual launch put a satellite that measures plant fluorescence and a new Copernicus ocean and land monitor into orbit.

For you: Measuring a signal far weaker than reflected sunlight from orbit is a sensor and signal-processing problem: spectrometer design, detector noise and calibration are standard BEI material. Copernicus data, including Sentinel-3, is free to download, so a Nepali student can use it in a final-year project on lake levels, snow cover or crop stress with Python tools. Civil students can use the same data for watershed and hydrology work. Free satellite data skills are in demand at Nepali agencies and NGOs.

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Electronics, energy & space · 5 min read

Proxima Fusion plans a superconducting tape factory in Germany

A deal with Lower Saxony targets Europe's first large-scale plant for fusion-grade HTS tape, a material made mostly in Asia today.

For you: The story shows how a new technology creates demand for a materials and manufacturing supply chain, not just for physicists. Making kilometres of thin superconducting tape needs thin-film deposition, process control and quality testing, skills shared with semiconductor fabs. For students, it shows that knowing how a component is made and tested at scale is valuable. Grids, motors and quantum computers are other users of the same tape, so the skills are not tied to fusion alone.

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Electronics, energy & space · 5 min read

Clean hydrogen investment passes $130 billion, Hydrogen Council says

Committed projects now cover 6.9 million tonnes a year of capacity, but developers are cancelling others as costs stay high and demand stays weak.

For you: Hydrogen is often presented to students as the next big energy job market. These numbers suggest a slower and more uneven path, with China far ahead. The electrical side of an electrolyser plant, large rectifiers, grid connection and control, is BEI work, and the plant and pipework are civil and mechanical work. For Nepal, the useful question is whether surplus monsoon hydropower could make hydrogen cheaply enough to compete, and students can test that with the cost figures in these reports.

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Electronics, energy & space · 6 min read

Nepal Army uses cargo drones to reach flood-cut villages

With roads and bridges gone after the August floods, four donated cargo drones carried food, medicine and fuel across the Trishuli at Devighat.

For you: It shows where the demand for drone engineers here is likely to come from: relief, mountain logistics and mapping. Building and running these systems needs BEI skills in motor control, batteries, radio links and flight controllers, plus licensed pilots and maintenance staff. Civil engineers use drone mapping for damage surveys and road and bridge rebuilding. A drone project in final year is a practical way to build these skills.

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Electronics, energy & space · 5 min read

Tokamak Energy runs superconducting fusion magnets at 13.7 tesla

A 14-month test of 44 high-temperature superconducting coils reached 13.7 tesla and logged about 10,000 hours of operation.

For you: HTS magnets are moving out of fusion labs into power cables, motors, MRI and grid fault-current limiters. Running them safely means cryogenics, quench detection, current control and protection circuits, which combine electromagnetics with power electronics. BEI students meet the foundations in electromagnetic theory and electrical machines. A forced-discharge test at 12.5 tesla is a reminder that protecting a system when it fails is as much engineering work as making it reach a record.

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ISRO's GSLV places EOS-05 imaging satellite in geosynchronous orbit

India's first imaging satellite to work from geosynchronous orbit can picture the whole Indian landmass every 30 minutes, ending an eight-month launch gap.

For you: A camera parked over South Asia that refreshes every half hour changes how floods and cloudbursts can be tracked in the Himalaya, where polar-orbit satellites pass only once or twice a day. The work behind it sits in BEI subjects: satellite communication links, image sensors, onboard data handling and telemetry. Civil students meet the same data in remote sensing and GIS for hazard mapping. Learning to process multispectral and hyperspectral imagery in free tools is a skill Nepali disaster and hydropower agencies already ask for.

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Electronics, energy & space · 6 min read

NASA's Roman Space Telescope launches with a 300-megapixel camera

The Roman telescope left Florida on a Falcon Heavy for a point beyond the Moon, carrying an infrared camera with a view 100 times wider than Hubble's.

For you: Roman is an electronics story as much as an astronomy one. Cooling infrared detectors far below freezing, reading out 300 million pixels without adding noise and sending 1.4 terabytes a day across 1.5 million km are problems in sensor design, data compression and deep-space radio links. These sit in BEI courses on communication systems and instrumentation. The same detector and readout skills are used in medical imaging, security cameras and satellite payloads.

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Electronics, energy & space · 5 min read

China postpones Chang'e-7 Moon south pole mission past 2026

China's space agency called off the Chang'e-7 launch days after rollout, saying it did not meet launch conditions in this year's window.

For you: Students often see only successful launches. A scrub that cancels a whole year's window shows how much depends on tests, reviews and the courage to stop. Polar landers also need hard engineering in power, thermal control and radio relay, because the Sun stays low and some craters never see light. These are applied topics in BEI courses on communication and power systems. The decision is also a reminder to treat any announced space schedule, Chinese, Indian or American, as a target.

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How these are written

Each story names the outlets it came from and the date, and none of the wording is theirs. If a figure changes after we wrote it, the source link is the place to check.

Researched with AI assistance on 11 October 2026. No member of faculty has reviewed this set yet.

Last reviewed by Imperial College of Engineering. Stories added 11 October 2026. Each story carries its own source's date.