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Environmental compliance of hydropower projects in Nepal
Environmental Challenges, 2021 The construction of hydropower projects is proliferating, and environmental studies are conducted to make them more environmental-friendly. As properly managed hydropower projects have minimal environmental impacts, the environmental compliance of the ...
Hemant R Ghimire +2 more
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Optimal energy portfolio method for regulable hydropower plants under the spot market
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2023 The energy allocation method for regulable hydropower plants under the spot market significantly impacts their income. The available studies generally draw on the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) approach, which typically assumes a fixed risk aversion ...
Guanpeng Lu +4 more
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The blue water footprint of electricity from hydropower [PDF]
, 2012 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.
Hoekstra, A.Y., Mekonnen, M.M.
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Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Global Hydropower
Energies, 2012 Currently, hydropower accounts for close to 16% of the world’s total power supply and is the world’s most dominant (86%) source of renewable electrical energy. The key resource for hydropower generation is runoff, which is dependent on precipitation. The
Aanund Killingtveit, Byman Hamududu
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Small hydropower in Southern Africa – an overview of five countries in the region
Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 2017 This paper looks at the status of small hydropower in Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. For each country, an overview will be given of the electricity sector and the role of hydropower, the potential for small hydropower and the ...
Qim Jonker Klunne
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Evaluating power grid model hydropower feasibility with a river operations model
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Production cost models (PCMs) simulate dispatch of generators across a large power grid and are used widely by planners to study the reliability of electricity supply.
T M Magee +5 more
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Energy Strategy Reviews, 2021 More than 70% of the dams under construction or planned in major river basins are transboundary. In this paper, based on original data and field research in three continents, we explore the impacts of transboundary dams in the major hydropower states of ...
Cecilia Llamosas, Benjamin K. Sovacool
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Study on market mechanisms for participation of small-scale hydropower clusters in electricity energy and ancillary services [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 The problem of large-scale distributed new energy consumption is highlighted under the double carbon target. Based on the existing distributed small hydropower and local hydrological and geographical conditions, the pumping-storage linkage function of ...
Huang Honghui +3 more
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Future large hydropower dams impact global freshwater megafauna [PDF]
, 2019 Dam construction comes with severe social, economic and ecological impacts. From an ecological point of view, habitat types are altered and biodiversity is lost.
Berlekamp, Juergen +5 more
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Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development [PDF]
, 2014 A brisk building boom of hydropower mega-dams is underway from China to Brazil. Whether benefits of new dams will outweigh costs remains unresolved despite contentious debates.
Ansar, Atif +3 more
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