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Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Variability on Hydropower Potential in Data-Scarce Regions Subjected to Multi-Decadal Variability [PDF]
Energies, 2019 To achieve sustainable development of hydroelectric resources, it is necessary to understand their availability, variability, and the expected impacts of climate change.
Pedro Arriagada +3 more
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Long-term basin-scale hydropower expansion under alternative scenarios in a global multisector model
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Hydropower is an important source of renewable, low-carbon energy. Global and regional energy systems, including hydropower, may evolve in a variety of ways under different scenarios.
Ying Zhang +5 more
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Global Energy Interconnection, 2020 There have been few studies on the hydropower exploitation plan for sections beyond the Inga hydropower project (HPP) in the lower reaches of the Congo River.
Chuanyu Deng, Fulong Song, Zhengxi Chen
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Environmental Research Letters, 2023 Hydropower is a low-carbon emission renewable energy source that provides competitive and flexible electricity generation and is essential to the evolving power grid in the context of decarbonization.
Tian Zhou +4 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 As governments and non-state actors strive to minimize global warming, a primary strategy is the decarbonization of power systems which will require a massive increase in renewable electricity generation.
J. Opperman +20 more
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Design models for small run-of-river hydropower plants: a review
Sustainable Energy Research, 2023 Hydropower plants are among the most efficient and reliable renewable energy systems in the world as far as electricity production is concerned. Run-of-river hydropower plants seem more attractive than conventional hydroelectric plants since they can be ...
D. Tsuanyo +5 more
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The Economic Performance of Hydropower Dams Supported by the World Bank Group, 1975–2015
Energies, 2021 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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Reducing adverse impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion
Science, 2022 Proposed hydropower dams at more than 350 sites throughout the Amazon require strategic evaluation of trade-offs between the numerous ecosystem services provided by Earth’s largest and most biodiverse river basin.
A. Flecker +39 more
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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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Impacts of existing and planned hydropower dams on river fragmentation in the Balkan Region.
Science of the Total Environment, 2023 The Balkan region has some of the best conserved rivers in Europe, but is also the location of ~3000 planned hydropower dams that are expected to help decarbonise energy production.
M. Carolli +8 more
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