Hydropower is a type of renewable energy that uses the power of water flows to generate electricity. The energy it generates is clean, reliable and sustainable.
In addition to constant electricity production, hydropower has the added benefit of been able to react quickly to changing electricity demands. The water intake can be increased to spin turbines faster or bring additional turbines online, almost in real-time. This is helpful during periods of peak...
Using a reversible turbine, the plant can pump water back to the upper reservoir. This is done in off-peak hours. Essentially, the second reservoir refills the upper reservoir. By pumping water back to the upper reservoir, the plant has more water to generate electricity during periods of pea...
Hydropower is energy collected from flowing water that's converted into electricity or used to power machinery. Hydropower has been around for centuries, used to turn millwheels or drive early industrial machinery, but in modern use it typically refers to electrical generation. Today hydropower ...
The economic feasibility of hydropower development is very sensitive to the difference between a discount rate, used to bring future income and costs to present value, and an assumed escalation rate, used to predict the future cost of electricity. The discount rate is taken as the load interest...
Run-of-river hydroelectricity describes hydro generation plants using the water stream of a river to generate electricity without any, or only limited storage, referred to as pondage. The volume of water flowing down the river and the drop of the riverbed level determine the amount of electricity...
How Much Electricity Can a Hydroelectric Plant Make? Hydro power is obtained from the potential and kinetic energy of water flowing from a height. The energy contained in the water is converted into electricity by using a turbine coupled to a generator. ...
This site is dedicated to helping you learn more about why water such a remarkable source of energy, and how we can use it to make our planet a nicer place to live. The Dirty Secret of Electricity Our story begins with electricity which, on the surface, looks like wonderfully clean power...
This thesis analyses the impacts of FDI in the hydropower sector after 2006, and the main question is in what ways the Georgian government's search for FDI in the hydropower sector have had an impact on social and environmental aspects of the society. This thesis is a case study of two ...
Using a reversible turbine, the plant can pump water back to the upper reservoir. This is done in off-peak hours. Essentially, the second reservoir refills the upper reservoir. By pumping water back to the upper reservoir, the plant has more water to generate electricity during periods of pea...