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The Economic Performance of Hydropower Dams Supported by the World Bank Group, 1975–2015
This paper assesses the economic benefits of 57 World Bank Group-sponsored hydropower dam plant investments. Hydropower dams are among the main sources for producing electricity and the largest renewable source for power generation throughout the world ...
Saule Baurzhan +2 more
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Climate change has intensified the conflict between economic and ecological water demands, and brought challenges to the ecological operation of hydropower plants.
Xiaohong CHEN, Ruida ZHONG
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Small hydropower in Southern Africa – an overview of five countries in the region
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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Optimal energy portfolio method for regulable hydropower plants under the spot market
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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Hydropower has come to be treated as synonymous with sustainable economic development by many in the development arena. This is despite the adverse ecological and sociological impacts being widely recognised by those outside of decision-making. The prevalence of this 'hydropower myth' simplifies the complex trade-offs involved within hydropower ...
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Based on related researches on the index system and evaluation approache of green hydropower at home and abroad, with respect to the characteristics of cascade hydropower development environmental protection in river basin t and the life cycle management
GAO Ya-Qin, LIU Guo-Dong
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Evaluating power grid model hydropower feasibility with a river operations model
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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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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Large-capacity hydropower transmission from southwestern China to load centers via ultra-high voltage direct current (UHVDC) or ultra-high voltage alternating current (UHVAC) transmission lines is an important measure of the accommodation of large-scale ...
Jianyu Lu +3 more
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Grey Wolf Algorithm in Coordinated Hydro and Wind Power Generation
Wind is stochastic that trouble the grid power balance and make wind curtailment occur. The wind power and hydropower could cooperate operation to reduce the influence of wind power fluctuation.
Xing LI, Xiuyuan YANG, Lijie WANG
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