hydropower Articles
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Survey of Canadian Hydropower Potential
An in-depth survey of Canadian Hydropower potential 1. BUSINESS CHALLENGE Interest in hydropower as a renewable energy source is on the rise. As part of an ongoing strategy to promote hydropower as a viable energy source, the Canadian Hydropower Association (CHA) identified the need to obtain an upto-date and accurate picture of hydropower potential in Canada. In 2005, the CHA retained ÉEM to ...
By EEM Inc.
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New approaches for medium-scale hydropower development in Vietnam : lessons from preparation of the Trung Son Hydropower Project
This paper provides an overview of the Trung Son hydropower project preparation experience and highlights the innovative features of the project, primarily focusing on the adoption of new approaches in project design and integration of social and environmental concerns. Through disseminating the Trung Son project experience, this paper is intended to contribute to the sustainable scale-up of ...
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Join a free webinar on Balkans Hydropower investment potential
Join free webinar on the investment potential of hydropower in the Balkans Learn more about the hydropower investment potential of Balkan countries, as well as industry development plant at the webinar held in the run up to the international Summit and Exhibition "Hydropower Balkans 2017". Register for the webinar: http://www.hydropowerbalkans.com/webinar-en/ At the webinar, you can ...
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Factsheet: Hydropower and ecology
Accounting for 20% (around 3,400 TWh) of global electricity production – even though its contribution to gross final energy consumption is only about 2% – hydropower plays a vital role. This is largely due to the fact that it can be readily regulated to meet fluctuations in demand and substantial reserves can be stored in reservoirs. Hydropower supplies around 56% of Switzerland's ...
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Hydropower ambitions of South Asian nations and China: Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers basins
This paper analyses the current status of hydropower development in two major rivers basins in South Asia, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. The total drainage area of the basins is about 1,660,000 km² shared by China, Nepal, India, Bhutan and Bangladesh. These two basins are blessed with ample water resources and huge hydropower potential. The abundant hydropower potential of these rivers basins ...
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An improved method for evaluating ecological suitability of hydropower development by considering water footprint and transportation connectivity in Tibet, China
Ecological suitability evaluation for hydropower development is effective in locating the most suitable area for construction and emphasizes a clear direction for water resources governance. In this paper, water footprints and transportation connectivity were introduced to improve the existing ecological suitability evaluation application for hydropower development by revising the defects of ...
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Understanding water-society nexus: insights from Turkey's small-scale hydropower policy
Turkey's recent venture involving the construction of hundreds of small-scale hydropower projects is a significant trend, both in regard to its contribution to Turkey's hydroelectricity production and the social and environmental impact of these projects at the local level. Turkey's hydropower policy was premised on a conventional understanding of water driven by science, technology, and the ...
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Limited adaptive genetic algorithm for inner-plant economical operation of hydropower station
A limited adaptive genetic algorithm (LAGA) is proposed in the paper for inner-plant economical operation of a hydropower station. In the LAGA, limited solution strategy, with the feasible solution generation method for generating an initial population and the limited perturbation mutation operator, is presented to avoid hydro units operating in cavitation–vibration regions. The adaptive ...
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Africa’s hydropower future
From Côte d’Ivoire in the west to Ethiopia in the east, Africa is home to some of the world’s fastest growing economies. Debates often proclaim a new era of economic boom, innovation and social opportunity for the continent. But beyond the hype, millions of people remain affected by severe poverty, and at the root of this lies a perennial problem: energy poverty. Could ...
By SciDev.Net
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Public-Private Sector Partnership on Hydropower in the Partner Countries
This project will support the Task Force in its effort to create an enabling environment for renewable and distributed generation technologies in Partner countries. The project will focus on all Partner countries in order to identify specific barriers impeding hydropower investment in each country. Partner countries have identified more than $200 billion in hydropower investment necessary for ...
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Extended multi-objective firefly algorithm for hydropower energy generation
Classical methods have severe limitations (such as being trapped in local optima, and the curse of dimensionality) to solve optimization problems. Evolutionary or meta-heuristic algorithms are currently favored as the tools of choice for tackling such complex non-linear reservoir operations. This paper evaluates the performance of an extended multi-objective developed firefly algorithm ...
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The potential impacts of climate change on hydropower generation in Mid Wales
Hydropower is a potential large source of electricity supply in Wales. The Upper River Severn in Mid Wales is a typical stream where a high head hydropower scheme could be developed and the river system at Plynlimon has some of the longest records for weather and flow in Wales. A micro-hydropower potential of 99 kW is demonstrated at Plynlimon and the potential impacts of climate change are ...
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Hydropower installation
DSEP100 Mains Decoupling Relays for hydropower projects in remote locations in the Cumbrian Lake District, UK. Old decommissioned water wheels in Ambleside, Blencathra and Langdale have been recently refurbished and brought back into use as sophisticated hydropower turbines which are now working in parallel with the grid, supplementing the local electricity supply. The DSEP100 ...
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Trung Son hydropower project : overview and update
Trung Son is a $411.57 million medium-sized hydropower and development project located in Northwest Vietnam that will supply least-cost electric power for domestic consumption in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner and will contribute to improvements in dam safety in the power sector in Vietnam. The project will also contribute to the climate change agenda in Vietnam by avoiding ...
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The impacts of climate change on a Norwegian high-head hydropower system
Hydropower is the most important renewable energy source for electricity in Norway. However, it is the most vulnerable resource to climate change. Despite the importance of hydropower and its vulnerability to climate change, many studies have been mostly concerned with large-scale resources assessment. This study aims to address the climate change impacts on the scale of a single hydropower ...
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An assessment of reservoir filling policies for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Africa's largest hydropower facility is currently under construction on the main stem of the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is poised to facilitate regional development with a 63 billion cubic meter reservoir and 6,000 MW of power generating capacity. To date, however, no reservoir filling rate policy has been established. This policy will have ...
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Evaluation of precipitation forecasts from NOAA global forecast system in hydropower operation
Forecasts of 10-day average inflow into the Ertan hydropower station of the Yalong river basin are needed for seasonal hydropower operation. Medium-range inflow forecasts have usually been obtained by Auto-Regressive-Moving-Average (ARMA) models, which do not utilize any precipitation forecasts. This paper presents a simple GFS-QPFs-based rainfall - runoff model (GRR) using the 10-day accumulated ...
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The blue water footprint of electricity from hydropower
Hydropower accounts for about 16% of the world’s electricity supply. It has been debated whether hydroelectric generation is merely an in-stream water user or whether it also consumes water. In this paper we provide scientific support for the argument that hydroelectric generation is in most cases a significant water consumer. The study assesses the blue water footprint of hydroelectricity ...
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Hydropower - Practice and Application
Hydroelectric energy is the most widely used form of renewable energy, accounting for 16 percent of global electricity consumption. This book is primarily based on theoretical and applied results obtained by the authors during a long time of practice devoted to problems in the design and operation of a significant number of hydroelectric power plants in different countries. It was preferred to ...
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Energy self-sufficient grain mill using hydroelectricity Finland - Case Study
Pitkäkoski grain mill, located in Kiuruvesi, Central Finland, stands next to an old hydropower plant from the 1930s. The mill itself has been working since the 19th century, and nowadays both the mill and the dam are owned by the current milling ...
By Nocart Ltd.
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