Hydropower for sustainable water and energy development

Ibrahim Yüksel

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2010, vol. 14, issue 1, 462-469

Abstract: Turkey has a total gross hydropower potential of 433Â GWh/year, but only 125Â GWh/year of the total hydroelectric potential of Turkey can be economically used. By the commissioning of new hydropower plants, which are under construction, 36% of the economically usable potential of the country would be tapped. Turkey presently has considerable renewable energy sources. The most important renewable sources are hydropower, biomass, geothermal, solar and wind. Turkey's geographical location has several advantages for extensive use of most of these renewable energy sources. Over the last two decades, global electricity production has more than doubled and electricity demand is rising rapidly around the world as economic development spreads to emerging economies. Not only has electricity demand increased significantly, it is the fastest growing end-use of energy. Therefore, technical, economic and environmental benefits of hydroelectric power make it an important contributor to the future world energy mix, particularly in the developing countries.

Keywords: Water; potential; Energy; sources; Renewable; energy; Sustainable; development; Hydropower; and; dams (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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