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Hydropower is the largest renewable source of electricity. It accounts for 2.2% of primary energy supply and 16% of electrical generation. The HydroPower report contains a wealth of the latest available statistics of hydro power and hydro power plants.
This electricity market research report discusses environmental objections to hydropower and the different impacts on the futures for LHP and SHP. The effects on population, wild life, eco systems, water diversion, landscape, and the potentially critical new problem of methane, which is being researched and could condemn LHP as more environmentally damaging than fossil fuels.

Outline of the Hydropower report:

• Contribution of hydro power to the energy mix
• History of hydropower
• Development of Hydro power and the different patterns for PHP and SHP
• Technical background
• Base load & peaking with hydropower
• Environmental benefits and concerns
• Regional & country hydropower profiles of Europe, CIS, North America, Latin America & Carribean, Asia, Asia Pacific, Africa, Middle East
• The different size technologies of hydro power - large, small, mini, micro and pica

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