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A global-scale framework for hydropower development incorporating strict environmental constraints

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dc.contributor.authorJerez Rodríguez, Sonia
dc.contributor.authorXu, Rongrong
dc.contributor.authorZeng, Zhenzhong
dc.contributor.authorPan, Ming
dc.contributor.authorZiegler, Alan D.
dc.contributor.authorHolden, Joseph
dc.contributor.authorSpracklen, Dominick V.
dc.contributor.authorBrown, Lee E.
dc.contributor.authorHe, Xinyue
dc.contributor.authorChen, Deliang
dc.contributor.authorYe, Bin
dc.contributor.authorXu, Haiwei
dc.contributor.authorZheng, Chunmiao
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Junguo
dc.contributor.authorLin, Peirong
dc.contributor.authorYang, Yuan
dc.contributor.authorZou, Junyu
dc.contributor.authorWang, Dashan
dc.contributor.authorGu, Mingyi
dc.contributor.authorYang, Zongliang
dc.contributor.authorLi, Dongfeng
dc.contributor.authorHuang, Junling
dc.contributor.authorLakshmi, Venkataraman
dc.contributor.authorWood, Eric F.
dc.contributor.departmentFísica
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-16T12:25:42Z
dc.date.available2026-02-16T12:25:42Z
dc.date.copyright© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited
dc.date.issued2023-01-16
dc.description.abstractThe benefits of developing the world’s hydropower potential are intensely debated when considering the need to avoid or minimize environmental impacts. However, estimates of global unused profitable hydropower potential with strict environmental constraints have rarely been reported. In this study we performed a global assessment of the unused profitable hydropower potential by developing a unified framework that identifies a subset of hydropower station locations with reduced environmental impacts on the network of 2.89 million rivers worldwide. We found that the global unused profitable hydropower potential is 5.27 PWh yr−1, two-thirds of which is distributed across the Himalayas. Africa’s unused profitable hydropower is 0.60 PWh yr−1, four times larger than its developed hydropower. By contrast, Europe’s hydropower potential is extremely exploited. The estimates, derived from a consistent and transparent framework, are useful for formulating national hydropower development strategies.
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dc.identifier.citationXu, R., Zeng, Z., Pan, M. et al. A global-scale framework for hydropower development incorporating strict environmental constraints. Nat Water 1, 113–122 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-022-00004-1
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-022-00004-1
dc.identifier.eissn2731-6084
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/205741
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNature Research
dc.relationThis study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Z.Z., grant nos. 42071022 and 72173058), the start-up fund of the Southern University of Science and Technology (Z.Z., 29/Y01296122), the UK Natural Environment Research Council’s Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (J.H., grant no. NE/P011160/1), the innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement (D.V.S., grant no. 765553) and the Euro-FLOW project (a European training and research network for environmental flow management in river basins), which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research programme and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 765553 (L.E.B).We thank the Terrestrial Hydrology Research Group at Princeton University for providing the state-of-theart global run-off dataset. We are grateful to P. R. Elsen for insightful comments and valuable discussions on the manuscript.
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-022-00004-1
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dc.subject.odsObjetivo 7: Energía
dc.titleA global-scale framework for hydropower development incorporating strict environmental constraints
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