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Small hydropower in China: A new record in world hydropower development

✍ Scribed by Charlotte Hicks

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
1017 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
1471-0846

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✦ Synopsis

hina has abundant small hydropower (SHP) resources, which are economically feasible for development. The developable potential amounts to 100 GW and it is scattered over more than 1,500 out of the nearly 2,300 counties in the country. Up to the end of 2002, China has established 652 Primary Rural Electrification Counties. The number of SHP stations operating in the country is 42,221 with an aggregate installed capacity of 28,489 MW, accounting for more than one quarter of the country's total developable potential. From

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