The Himalayan Rivers have an enormous hydropower potential that is still not exploited fully for the benefit of the …

Low electricity prices put economic pressure on hydropower companies. A more flexible water fee design can counteract … developments dominate changes in water fees and that for the profitability of hydropower, electricity prices are more important … this pressure and support hydropower companies during times when market revenues are low. However, this comes at the cost …

This paper assesses the economic benefits of 57 World Bank Group-sponsored hydropower dam plant investments. Hydropower … the world. Hydropower dams are often a lower-cost option for power generation in Clean Energy Transition for addressing … global climate change. Despite its conspicuous aspects, constructing hydropower dams has been controversial. Considering the …

This study is an attempt to determine whether the need to get hydropower project appraisals perfectly right during the … Hiding Hand dominates the Malevolent Hiding Hand in the selected World Bank-financed hydropower projects (33% v. 21%) and … placing some weight on proceeding with hydropower projects that shows significant promise even if all the implantation risks …

Hydropower (HP) is expected to play an important role in the European energy transition by providing back-up and …

-dominated electricity system using Switzerland as a case study. By using a short-term hydropower operation model and a set of Swiss … hydropower plants, we are able to identify a competitive benchmark for Swiss balancing market prices defined by the opportunity … costs of hydropower for providing balancing capacity. Our results show that Swiss balancing market prices are influenced by …

transition. I use an operational model for a set of Swiss hydropower plants to quantify the opportunity costs of balancing … provision for hydropower under the past, current, and future Swiss balancing market designs. My results show that compared to …