The Benefits of Small Hydro

Returns on the River

The Benefits of Small Hydro

APRIL, 2012 Premium Article LatAm has some of the best natural hydropower resources in the world, with an abundance of high-volume rivers crossing the continent’s steep elevation gradients, and the region has a long history of harnessing this power by damming rivers and forming reservoirs – the classic “large” hydro method. Brazil has done the most to slake its hydro thirst River Damn : already second in the world in hydro production and third in installed capacity, with 83.8% of its energy coming from hydro power, it recently announced plans for the Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon, which, if completed, will be the third largest of its kind in the world. Yet the intense, much-publicized controversy surrounding the Belo Monte Dam and similar large hydro projects such as the proposed and fiercely contested HidroAysén project in so.....

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