Land tenure issues such as tenure forms and its allocation and land acquisition procedure are not extensively considered in hydropower development. As a result hydropower projects are not sustainable. The main aim of the study is to find the role of land tenure in hydropower development. Desk study is carried out and is followed by the scientific literature review. The study reveals that the co...

The Three Gorges Dam project (TGDP), with a total static investment of 95.46 billion RMB (US$10.97 billion) based on the 1993 price level, commenced in 1994 and was completed in 2012. The creation of the Three Gorges Reservoir following the completion of the TGDP had brought about significant changes to the Three Gorges Reservoir Region (TGRR), stretching from the town of Sandouping in Hubei Pr...

Hydropower in boreal conditions is generally considered the energy source emitting the least greenhouse gas per kilowatt-hour during its life cycle. The purpose of this study was to assess the relative contribution of the land-use change on the modification of the carbon sinks and sources following the flooding of upland forested territories to create the Eastmain-1 hydroelectric reservoir in Q...

#" !$" Snowmelt dominated streamflow of the Western Himalayan rivers is an important water !%" resource during the dry pre-monsoon months to meet the irrigation and hydropower needs !&" in northern India. This study is one of the first to look at the seasonal prediction of melt!'" dominated total inflow into the Bhakra Dam in northern India, based on statistical !(" relationships with meteorolo...

With dramatic cost declines and performance improvements, both mini-hydropower and solar photovoltaics (PV) now serve as core options to meet the growing demand for electricity in underserved regions worldwide. We compare the net energy return on energy invested (EROI) of mini-hydropower and solar electricity using five existing mini-hydropower installations in northern Thailand with gridconnec...

The improvement of the exploitation of energy resources in power stations is a topic of growing interest. However, experimentation costs in order to increase productivity are very high, either because the possible equipment to change would be very expensive, or simply, because the plant would have to stop. In such cases, the simulation is a fast and cheap way to analyze the power plant behavior...

This paper proposes a bi-level stochastic optimization problem (a Stackelberg game) to generate optimal bids for a profit maximizing hydropower producer and presents a mathematical approach to solve it. The first level represents the strategically acting hydropower producer also called a Stackelberg leader, while the second level represents the transmission system operator (TSO) also called a S...

In this paper an expert system for environmental impact assessment, known as the EIAsystem, is presented. This system provides advice for hydropower development and river regulation projects. It is based on a method used for assessing the impact that hydropower development and river regulation will have on the environment, called the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Method (Strömquist & Ta...