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Reservoir sedimentation. --- Hydroelectric power plants --- Water-supply --- Protection. --- Management.

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Hydropower could double its contribution by 2050, reaching 2 000 GW of global capacity and over 7 000 TWh. This achievement, driven primarily by the quest of clean electricity, could prevent annual emissions of up to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 from fossil-fuel plants. The bulk of this growth would come from large plants in emerging economies and developing countries. Hydroelectricity’s many advantages include reliability, proven technology, large storage capacity, and very low operating and maintenance costs. Hydropower is highly flexible, a precious asset for electricity network operators, especially given rapid expansion of variable generation from other renewable energy technologies such as wind power and photovoltaics. Many hydropower plants also provide flood control, irrigation, navigation and freshwater supply. The technology roadmap for Hydropower details action needed from policy makers to allow hydroelectric production to double, and addresses necessary conditions, including resolving environmental issues and gaining public acceptance.

Hydroelectric power plants --- Water-power --- Hydraulic engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Hydraulic Engineering --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Hydraulic power plants --- Hydroelectric power --- Hydroelectricity --- Hydropower --- Waterpower --- Natural resources --- Power resources --- Renewable energy sources --- Water resources development --- Stream measurements --- Water-power electric plants --- Power-plants --- Electric power production --- Hydroelectric power plants. --- Water-power. --- Hydraulic engineering.

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The damming of the Saguenay brought industrialisation on a grand scale to rural Quebec in the form of newsprint and aluminum manufacture. Tapping into rich and diverse sources in Canada, the United States, and Europe, Massell provides an interdisciplinary, cross-border study of American capital and Canadian resources. He shows us how ever-larger amounts of capital yielded increasingly massive and sophisticated applications of hydroelectric technology. Grand industrial plans, in turn, encroached upon provincial water rights and farmers' lands, which drew the attention of the state. He examines the protracted power struggle between public and private interests - between American capitalists and the nascent bureaucracy of the province of Quebec - and describes the origins and evolution of the events that led to state control over hydraulic resources in the province. In doing so he provides vivid portraits of Duke and of Quebec politicians of the period and gives a dramatic account of the protracted battle of wits between Duke's chief engineer, William States Lee, and Quebec's chief of Hydraulic Service, Arthur Amos. Amassing Power speaks to the integration of North American economies, vividly illustrating the process by which American capital drew Canada's resource-rich North into the economic orbit of the United States.

Hydroelectric power plants --- Industrialization --- History. --- Duke, James Buchanan, --- Saguenay River (Québec) --- Saguenay Region (Québec) --- Québec (Province) --- Power utilization --- Politics and government. --- Saguenay River (Quebec) --- Saguenay Region (Quebec) --- Quebec (Province)

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Infrastructure development in the past was often implemented without adequately taking into consideration the possible negative environmental and social impacts. Drawing from the experience of the Bumbuna Hydropower project in Sierra Leone, this paper proposes to complement safeguard policies by establishing, at the beginning of the project identification phase, two-way communication mechanisms and a continuous consultation process, allowing the government and the donors to interact with key stakeholders.

Hydraulic energy --- Economic infrastructure --- Mass communications --- Sierra Leone --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Communication in rural development --- Water-power --- Hydroelectric power plants --- Hydraulic power plants --- Hydroelectric power --- Hydroelectricity --- Hydropower --- Waterpower --- Natural resources --- Power resources --- Renewable energy sources --- Water resources development --- Stream measurements --- Rural development --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Water-power electric plants --- Power-plants --- Electric power production --- Bumbuna Hydroelectric Project. --- BHP --- Sierra Leone. --- Bumbuna Hydro Electric Project --- Bumbuna Hydro Project --- BHP (Bumbuna Hydroelectric Project)

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This paper analyses a large public investment in a construction of a hydropower plant in Lesotho and its implications on the growth and debt sustainability. The paper employs an open economy dynamic general equilibrium model to assess the benefits of a large public investment through growth-enhancing increase in domestic energy supply and receipts from selling electricity abroad to ease the fiscal burden, which is often associated with big investment projects. During the transition (construction stage), various financing options are explored: increase in the public debt, increase in domestic revenue (fiscal adjustment), and combination. The calibration matches Lesotho's data and it captures the project's main challenges regarding the project costs. Moreover,the key remaining issue is the agreement with South Africa to purchase sufficient amount of electricity to allow the potential plant to run at a high capacity. We find that, the project can lead to sizable macroeconomic benefits as long as costs are relatively low and demand from South Africa is sufficiently high. However, the risks for the viability of the project are high, if these assumptions are violated.

Hydroelectric power plants --- Debts, Public --- Electric power distribution --- Economic aspects --- Capacity --- Capital --- Commodities --- Consumption --- Debt Management --- Debt --- Economic Development: Agriculture --- Economics --- Economywide Country Studies: Africa --- Electric Utilities --- Electric utilities --- Electricity --- Energy and the Macroeconomy --- Energy --- Environment --- Expenditure --- Fiscal consolidation --- Fiscal Policy --- Fiscal policy --- Intangible Capital --- International Lending and Debt Problems --- Investment & securities --- Investment --- Investments: Energy --- Macroeconomics --- Macroeconomics: Consumption --- Macroeconomics: Production --- National accounts --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures --- Natural Resources --- Other Primary Products --- Other Public Investment and Capital Stock --- Project Analysis --- Public debt --- Public finance & taxation --- Public Finance --- Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP) --- Public investment spending --- Public investments --- Public-private sector cooperation --- Renewable Resources and Conservation: Water --- Saving --- Sovereign Debt --- Wealth --- Lesotho, Kingdom of