https://www.boland-hydroturbine.com/ Hydropower capacity will need to increase 60% by 2050, with pumped hydro storage capacity needing to double, to help create a sustainable future energy system a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) suggests. Policy-makers and planners around the world need to "start thinking now" about building new hydropower projects, IRENA said in the Global Renewables Outlook report. In the report IRENA Director-General Francesco La Camera urges stimulus and recovery packages as a response to the current Covid-19 pandemic and to “accelerate the shift to sustainable, decarbonised economies and resilient inclusive societies”. Recovery measures should include investment in “interconnected hydropower” among other technologies, La Camera says. “With the need for energy...