Global Hydro Power Report Ed1 2011

This new report looks at the global hydro market, the changes, developments and forecasts for the future. Following years of stagnation and bad press, hydro power is experiencing resurgence. Technologies with a lower environmental impact such as run-of-river, small hydro and low head turbines are proving to be extremely popular to both appease critics of hydro and meet energy needs. So much so that in the USA, the regulator of hydro projects, the FERC, has signed memorandum of understandings with five states to streamline the licensing of small projects.

There has been an increase in pumped storage projects as a standalone option and retrofitted on to existing hydro power assets. As pumped storage is the most mature technology to store electricity generated from intermittent renewables such as wind and solar and then release it to meet peak demand. A large number of such projects are planned or under construction in the USA, China and Europe, which have a significant number of solar and wind projects installed or in the pipeline.

Research and Analysis highlights

Over the mid-term NRG EXPERT expects considerable growth in new hydro capacity. A worldwide installed capacity of over 1,100 GW by 2015 is likely. Most growth is expected in the Asia Pacific region, especially in the growing economic power houses of China and India. Along with neighbouring countries which export excess electricity over their borders. Significant growth is also expected in Latin America.

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1. Executive Summary

2. Contribution of hydro power to the energy mix
The contribution of hydro power to primary energy supply
The importance of hydro power to electricity generation
Hydroelectric resources

3. Hydro electricity generating capacity
Large hydro power
Small hydro power (SHP)
Pumped storage

4. History of hydro power
The Big Dam period in the USA
Small Hydropower (SHP)
- Development of SHP in Europe
- Development of SHP in China

5. Technical Background
Types of hydropower
- Impoundment hydropower
- Run-of-river projects
- Micro hydropower Projects
- Diversion Hydropower
- Pumped storage
- Head
- Life expectancy
- Turbine technologies for small-, mid- and large-scale hydro plants
New innovations

6. Finance
Clean Development Mechanism
Project costs
Job creation

7. Base Load, Intermediate and Peak Load with Hydropower
Variations of demant
Security of supply

8. Environmental concerns
World Bank review
Environmental impacts of dams and hydro plants
Greenhouse gases and methane
Examples of environmental degradation
- Small hydro power
- Earthquakes

9. Regional hydropower profile, Europe
SHP electricity prices
SHP investment costs
Hydropower potential
European market prospects

10. Country hydropower profiles, Europe
Albania
Austria
Belgium
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom

11. Regional hydropower profiles, CIS

12. Country hydropower profiles, CIS
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Moldova
Russia
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan

13. Regional hydropower profiles, North America

14. Country hydropower profiles, North America

Canada
- LHP
- SHP
- Small hydro technology development in Canada
- New plant development in Canada

United States
- Small hydro
- Pumped storage
- New hydropower plant development in the USA
- Research and Development

Mexico
- Small hydropower

15. Regional overview Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
Energy resources and production in LAC
Energy outlook in LAC
End-use efficiency and new forms of renewables
The future of hydropower in LAC
The investment in large dams

16. Country hydropower profiles Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC)
Argentina
- Salto Grande
- Yacyreta
- Planned projects
- Small hydro power
Bolivia
Brazil
- Itaipu
- Regulations for hydro development
- Growth Acceleration Programme
- Reidi Programme
- Small hydro
- Investment
- Future development of large dams
- New hydropower plant developments in Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
Surinam
Uruguay
Venezuela
- Small hydro
- Future outlook

17. Regional hydropower overview Asia (Developing countries)

18. Country hydropower profiles Asia (Developing countries)
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
China
- Large hydropower
- Small hydropower
- Pumped storage
- New hydropower plant development in China
Fiji
Hong Kong
India
- Water resources
- Hydropower development - large hydropower
- Small hydropower introduction into India
- Small hydropower in India today
- New hydropower plant developments in India
Indonesia
- Small hydro power
Laos
- Small hydro power
- New hydropower plant developments in Laos
Malaysia
Myanmar
Nepal
- Small Hydro Power
North Korea
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
- Hydropower development
- Small hydropower
Philippines
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam
- Small Hydro Power
- Pumped storage
Other countries

19. Regional hydropower overview, Asia Pacific (Industrialised countries)

20. Country hydropower profiles, Asia Pacific (Industrialised countries)
Australia
Japan
- Changes in National Energy Policy
New Zealand

21. Regional hydropower overview, Africa

22. Country hydropower profiles, Africa

Algeria
Angola
Burundi
Cameroon
Congo
Congo DR
Cote d'Ivoire
Egypt
Ethiopia
Gabon
Ghana
Guinea
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Morocco
Mozambique
Nigeria
Rwanda
South Africa
Sudan
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Other hydro projects

23. Regional hydropower overview, Middle East

24. Country hydropower profiles, Middle East
Iran
Lebanon
Syria

25. Appendix 1 - The computation of power

26. National policies for hydro power

27. Manufacturers
Main players
- Alstom Power
- Andritz
- Voith Hydro
General manufacturers
- ABB
- American Hydro Corporation
- Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
- Dongfant Electric
- Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon
- Harbin Power Equipment Corporation
- Hitachi, Mitsubishi Elecric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Sinohydro
- STE Energy

28. Sources

- Alstom Power
- Andritz
- Voith Hydro
- ABB
- American Hydro Corporation
- Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
- Dongfant Electric
- Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon
- Harbin Power Equipment Corporation
- Hitachi, Mitsubishi Elecric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Sinohydro
- STE Energy

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