1. Environmental 1.

Renewable
1.It is fueled by water Consequences
so it's a clean fuel source, meaning it won't The environmental This means that we
pollute the air like power plants that burn fossil consequences of cannot use up. However,
fuels, such as coal or natural gas. Hydroelectric hydropower are related to there’s only a limited
power is a domestic source of energy, allowing interventions in nature number of suitable
each state to produce their own energy without due to damming of water, reservoirs where
being reliant on international fuel sources. changed water flow and the construction of roads hydroelectric power plants can be built and even
and power lines. less places where such projects are profitable.
2.Hydropower 2.Green
is very Hydroelectric power plants may affect fish is a
convenient complex interaction between numerous physical Generating electricity with hydro energy is not
and biological factors. More user interests related polluting itself. The only pollution occurs during
because it can
to exploitation of fish species, which helps that the construction of these massive power plants.
respond quickly to
this is a field that many have strong opinions on.
fluctuations in
2. Expensive 3. Reliable
demand.
Building power plants in general is expensive. Hydroelectricity is
3.Hydroelectric power is also very
Hydroelectric power plants are not an exception very reliable energy.
efficient and inexpensive to this. On the other hand, these plants do not
"Modern hydro turbines can convert as much as There are very little
require a lot of workers and maintenance costs fluctuations in terms
90% of the available energy into electricity. The are usually low.
best fossil fuel plants are only about 50% efficient. of the electric power
3. Droughts that is being by the plants, unless a different
This is about one-third the cost of using fossil fuel
Electricity generation and energy prices are output is desired. 4. Flexible
or nuclear and one-sixth the cost of using natural
directly related to how much water is available.
gas," As previously mentioned, adjusting water flow and
A drought could potentially affect this.
4.Hydropower output of electricity is easy. At times where power
4. Limited Reservoirs consumption is low, water flow is reduced and the
has We have already started using up suitable
magazine levels are being conserved for times when
become the reservoirs for hydroelectric power plants. There are
the power consumption is high.
leading source currently about 30 major power plants that are
of renewable expected to 5. Safe
energy. generate more than
Compared to among
2.000 MW under
It provides more than 97% of all electricity others fossil fuels and
construction. Only
generated by renewable sources worldwide. Other nuclear energy,
one of these projects
sources including solar, geothermal, wind, and hydroelectricity is much
was started in the
biomass account for less than 3% of renewable safer. There is no fuel
last two years.
electricity production. involved (other than water
that is).
Hydroelectric energy Run-of-river
, also called hydropower
hydroelectric power A facility that channels
or hydroelectricity, is flowing water from a
a form of energy that river through a canal
harnesses the power or penstock to spin a
of water in motion—such as water flowing over a turbine.
waterfall—to generate electricity. To convert or to Run-of-river provides a continuous supply of
form an energy from the motion of the water, it electricity (base load), with some flexibility of
undergoes in a power station to convert it to an operation for daily fluctuations in demand through
electrical energy. water flow that is regulated by the facility.

Storage
hydropower
Typically, a large system
that uses a dam to store
water in a reservoir.
Electricity is produced by releasing water from the
reservoir through a turbine, which activates a
generator. Storage hydropower provides base
load as well as the ability to be shut down and
started up at short notice according the demands
A hydroelectric power station converts the kinetic, of the system (peak load).
or movement, energy in flowing or falling water into Pumped-storage
electrical energy that can be used in homes and hydropower
businesses. Hydroelectric energy can be generated Provides peak-load
on a small scale with a ‘run-of-river’ installation, supply,
which uses naturally flowing river water to turn one harnessing water
or more turbines, or on a large scale with a which is cycled
hydroelectric dam.
Most hydroelectric power plants have a reservoir of between a lower and upper reservoir by pumps
which use surplus energy from the system at times
water, a gate or valve to control how much water
flows out of the reservoir, and an outlet or place of low demand.
where the water ends up after flowing downward. Offshore
Water gains potential energy just before it spills hydropower
over the top of a dam or flows down a hill. The
potential energy is converted into kinetic energy as A less established but
growing group
water flows downhill. The water can be used to turn
the blades of a turbine to generate electricity, which of technologies that use tidal currents or the power
is distributed to the power plant’s customers. of waves to generate electricity from seawater