Recent growth in the renewable energy industry has increased government support for alternative energy. In the United States, hydropower is the largest source of renewable energy and also one of the most efficient. Currently, there are 30,000 megawatts of potential energy capacity through smalland micro-hydro projects throughout the United States. Increased development of micro-hydro could doub...

With the increasing demand for energy sources, a further development hydropower energy resource will be an inevitable choice for China’s resource strategy. The cascade hydropower station construction produced serious impacts on the regional eco-environment. The most obvious characteristics of impacts caused by the cascade hydropower plant development are progressive, cumulative and regional, wh...

This paper proposes a coexistence model for two independent companies both operating hydropower plants in the same river flow, based on a case study of the Cetina river basin in Croatia. Companies are participants of the day-ahead electricity market. The incumbent company owns the existing hydropower plants and holds concessions for the water. The new company decides to build a pump storage hyd...

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The Federal Government of Brazil has ambitious plans to build a system of 58 additional hydroelectric dams in the Brazilian Amazon, with Hundreds of additional dams planned for other countries in the watershed. Although hydropower is often billed as clean energy, we argue that the environmental impacts of this project are likely to be large, and will result in substantial loss of biodiversity, ...