Boland Hydropower

                                              https://www.boland-hydroturbine.com/ The global hydropower market is likely to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 2.4% until 2030. That’s according to data and analytics company GlobalData, which expects the sector will reach more than 165GW of installed capacity by this time, up from 124GW at the end of 2018. More than 18% of global electricity generation capacity currently comes from hydropower plants, with China, the US, Brazil, Canada, Russia, India, Japan, Norway, Turkey and France representing almost 70% of this proportion at the end of 2018. Ankit Mathur, Practice Head of Power at GlobalData, said: “China, which is rich in hydro resources, will continue to preserve its monopoly as the leading country until 2030, with more than 22 projects of gigawatt size under construction, slated to be online by 2030. Energy Live News 

                                       https://www.boland-hydroturbine.com/ Representatives of more than 170 countries reached consensus at the Top World Conference on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg (2002), and at the 3rd World Forum on Water, in Kyoto (2003): all hydroelectric generation is renewable and merits international support. Read, below, the ten reasons leading them to this conclusion. 1. Hydroelectricity is a renewable energy source. Hydroelectricity uses the energy of running water, without reducing its quantity, to produce electricity. Therefore, all hydroelectric developments, of small or large size, whether run of the river or of accumulated storage, fit the concept of renewable energy. 2. Hydroelectricity makes it feasible to utilize other renewable sources. Hydroelectric power plants with accumulation reservoirs offer incomparable operational flexibility, since they can immediately respond to fluctuations in the demand for electricity. The flexibi

                                        marketing@boland-hydroturbine.com Hydropower is the world’s third largest source of electricity and provides around 70% of the world’s renewable energy. However, dams – the traditional way we’ve harvested energy from water – are not as sustainable as you might think, disrupting the ecosystems within and around rivers, reducing biodiversity, and messing with water quality. Now, researchers are trying to find a way to make hydropower more environmentally friendly. “It’s only recently that people have started to realize that these dams fill up with sediment, that they are structurally unsound, some of them, and that something needs to be done with them,” says Carlos Garcia de Leaniz of Swansea University in Wales. But the world needs energy, and compared to other forms of renewable energy, hydropower is both flexible and predictable. Dams can store surplus energy generated when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, and, unlike solar an

                                                     www.boland-hydroturbine.com 1. Assessment: collect good baseline data Insufficient data about the state of the pre-construction project area can make it difficult for developers to fully understand a project’s environmental and social impact. To address this, effective baseline monitoring systems need to be in place long before construction commences. Sometimes this is done well, particularly for hydrological records. But often incomplete understanding of – for example – historical water quality makes it difficult to prove that the project is performing well. 2. Management: ongoing monitoring should look for emerging risks and opportunities Social and environmental impacts and opportunities can arise unexpectedly during the construction and operation of a hydroelectric project. At the ‘proven best practice’ level, the protocol requires operators and developers to be able to anticipate and respond to such emer