cost-benefit rule is then applied to the specific case of a proposed change at a Swedish hydropower plant. The book …

trade to promote hydropower in the South Asia region and quantifies the potential of hydropower development and trade under … alternative scenarios. While South Asia is endowed with large (> 350 gigawatts) hydropower potential, only around 20 percent has … the untapped hydropower resources. It also finds that development of hydropower in the region would increase by 2.7 times …

Hydropower accounts for 14.5% of total electricity generation in South and Southeast Asia, with a total hydropower … installed capacity of 117 GW. The installed hydropower capacity is expected to grow further in order to meet the region … low-carbon power source. However, climate change poses an increasing challenge to South and Southeast Asian hydropower …

benefits and costs of resource conflicts involving hydropower. The chapters highlight key methodological issues in this area … provided by hydropower. The inclusion of insights from expert contributors from both sides of the Atlantic brings a unique and …

Introduction -- Water as a Natural Resource -- Hydropower with Constraints -- Multiple Producers -- Mix of Thermal and … Hydropower Plants -- Trade -- Intermittent Energy -- Pumped-storage Hydroelectricity -- Uncertainty -- Transmission -- Market …Hydropower Economics provides qualitative economic analyses of how to utilize stored water in a hydropower system with …