Most renewable energy (RE) studies focus on technology readiness, environmental benefits and/or cost savings. The market permeation, viability and adoption of RE technologies such as micro hydropower (MHP), however, require the alignment other interrelated factors, socio-technical, institutional political dimensions. This is particularly case where recovery potential in decentralised water netw...

The report examined new scientific approaches to the creation of a combined cogeneration energy complex based on small or micro-hydropower. most effective micro-hydropower facilities were considered create workable structural layout. A criterion has been developed that allows evaluate efficiency hydroturbines at an early stage design using calculation method, including predictive estimate hydra...

increasing of energy demand and decreasing of water resources, could make the future energy production as a big challenge. climate change is one of the main reasons for water resources limitation. future precipitation and air temperature, change hydrological conditions and directly effect on the hydropower production. for showing the future condition and making it possible to manage the hydropo...

The hydropower station construction produced serious impacts on the regional eco-environment. The most obvious characteristics of the impacts caused by the cascade hydroelectric development are progressive, cumulative and regional. In this paper, the study area of Yellow river section from Longyangxia to Liujiaxia reservoir locates in the northwest Loess plateau of China. The remote sensing dat...

This paper analyzes ownership trends of nonfederal hydropower generating assets from 1980–2003. Previous research has shown that the overall electricity industry is unique in that, because of the extreme inelasticity of demand for power, even small sectors of the industry have the potential to exhibit substantial price setting behavior. Hydropower assets especially, with their unique ability to...

Evaluating the sustainable operation of community-owned and community-operated renewable energy projects is complex. The development a project often depends on actions diverse stakeholders, including government, industry communities. Throughout cycle, these interrelated impact sustainability project. In this paper, typical cycle micro-hydropower plant in Nepal used to demonstrate that key event...

Microgrids using renewable energy sources play an important role in providing universal electricity access rural areas the Global South. Current methods of system dimensioning rely on stochastic load profile modeling, which has limitations microgrids with industrial consumers due to high demand side uncertainties. In this paper, we propose alternative approach considering management during desi...

Southwest China’s Yunnan province is evolving into one of the world’s largest hydro-power-producing regions. It already rivals the world’s largest hydro-producing nations. However, five of Yunnan’s six basins are international and therefore its hydropower development is of great academic and geopolitical interest. While the implementation of large projects on Yunnan’s three large rivers (Jinsha...

The paper reports a technique used to construct a reference time series for the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically-active radiation (FAPAR) based on remotely-sensed data in the largest Russian arid wetland territory. For the arid Volga-Akhtuba wetlands, FAPAR appears to be an informative spectral index for estimating plant cover health and its seasonal and annual dynamics. Since FAPAR algo...

Introduction According to the Swiss Energy Strategy 2050, which takes into account the phase out of the existing nuclear power plants, the mean annual hydropower production must be increased by 1.5 TWh/a under present framework conditions, eventually reaching 3.2 TWh/a if conditions are optimized (SFOE, 2016). In view of environmental and socio-economic constraints, this foreseen increase is ex...