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Hydropower in Kurdistan
Mahmoud I.Mahmoud
Assistant Professor & Consulting Engineer
Water Resources Engineering (ASCE)
Civil Engineering Department
Cihan University – Erbil
Dec. 2017
HYDROPOWER
1. HP transforms the potential energy of a mass of water flowing in a river or
stream with a certain vertical fall (termed the “head”)
Large urban
Large > 100 MW
population centers
Medium urban
Medium 10 – 100 MW
population centers
Small communities
with possibility to
Small 1 – 10MW
supply electricity to
regional grid.
Small factory or
Mini 100 kW – 1MW
isolated communities.
Small isolated
Micro 5 – 100kW
communities.
Pico <5kW 1 – 2 houses.
Types of Hydroelectric
Installation
Typologies of
Hydropower plants