Sector Focus - Water
Investing Opportunities in Clean Technologies
Sustainable Water Power
In a today’s high-speed technological breakthroughs in Cleantech market, Hydropower is experiencing significant growth rates. Industry analysis forecast a doubling of installed capacity of small hydropower in the next few years. Hydropower projects occur on many scales and in several different Cleantech project types.
Investing for hydropower projects needs to be undertaken with the realization of the long-term nature of the ensuing benefits.
5 Strategic Hydropower Investing Benefits:
- 1. The long-lasting nature of dams and the ability to extend the operational life of power stations through refurbishment and upgrade.
- 2. Refurbishment and upgrade after 30-40 years will extend the operational life of a hydropower scheme to more than 80 years.
- 3. Increasing the generating life of an existing scheme is generally a preferred approach to construction of a new scheme.
- 4. Wall capacity gains may include water optimization to reduce spill, dam wall height extensions to increase storage capacity, and cloud seeding to increase rainfall.
- 5. Efficiency gains can be obtained from turbine upgrades and replacement of turbine runners.
Hydropower schemes have the capacity, with appropriate operation and maintenance, to be long-lived generation assets.
