energy
Small hydropower project is a clean source of power, which India has in abundance. Small hydropower projects are site specific and need careful planning for project formulation and implementation. In this paper an attempt is made to discuss types of small hydropower schemes and present a methodology on planning and implementation of small hydropower projects.
Nepal-India power exchange has long been taking place. The effectiveness of the exchange scenario, however, is not very encouraging. The main reason for this is the lack of physical infrastructures and sound power transaction modalities. In this article, Nepal-India power exchange is critically reviewed with regards to the physical infrastructures and in the Nepalese perspectives.
The proposed West Seti Hydroelectric Project, 750 MW, is one of the best projects of its genre, because it will not only generate peak-in energy and good quality power but because it will do so at low cost and, furthermore, its implementation will result in flood control and dry season augmented flow for lower riparian areas. Moreover, export of hydropower to India from this project will...
This paper presents a methodology to assess agricultural-to-hydropower water transfers in water resources systems where irrigation crop production and hydropower generation are the main economic activities. In many countries, water for crop irrigation is often considered as a static asset: irrigation water is usually allocated by a system of limited annual rights to...
The European Alps rely on winter precipitation for various needs in terms of hydropower and other water uses. Major European rivers originate from the Alps and depend on winter precipitation and the consequent spring snow melt for their summer base flows. Understanding the fluctuations in winter rainfall in this region is crucially important to the study of changes...
Local people’s preference scores for firewood species were studied through pair-wise ranking tools of Participatory Rural Appraisal technique from Yuksam-Dzongri trekking trail, Sikkim, India. A wide variety of plant species used as firewood was enlisted. These woody tree species with potential firewood use value were analysed for their Firewood Value Index (FVI) considering energy value,...
Snow in the High Atlas Mountains is a major source for freshwater renewal and for water availability in the semi-arid lowlands of the southern eastern Morocco. Snowfall- and snow-ablation monitoring and modelling is important for estimating potential water delivery from the mountain water towers to the forelands. This study is part of GLOWA-IMPETUS, an integrated management project dealing...
During the period 1998–2000, municipal officials in Bogotá implemented a new transportation system for the city. Transmilenio became the first major mass transportation system in the world to use only buses. The authors examine here the process that led to the design decision to power all of the buses with diesel fuel. The main finding is that the various public and private...
This paper analyzes sustainable development practices within Sri Lanka’s energy sector. It directs attention to how expertise functions in development decision making in ways that can unintentionally inhibit sustainable development. Understanding expertise as merely specialised knowledge clouds its role as a social activity. In practice, expertise is a combination of knowledge and...
Currently, a growing societal awareness of problems in the context of unsustainable development meets with conflicts of interest, and the actual implementation of sustainability research, and sustainable innovations and technologies, has only been mildly successful. Sustainable development demands nothing less than a radical change in their modes of consumption, production, technology, and...
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