Skip to Main Content
Skip Nav Destination
Energy and Power Generation Handbook: Established and Emerging Technologies
Editor
K. R. Rao
K. R. Rao
Search for other works by this author on:
ISBN:
9780791859551
No. of Pages:
708
Publisher:
ASME Press
Publication date:
2011

The development of dams on rivers, with associated benefits of water storage for flood control, irrigation, and “hydropower” has played a vital role in advancing civilization throughout history. Of these, hydropower ingeniously and yet so simply combines two of the most fundamental components of nature on planet Earth — water and gravity — to help sustain our survival and improve our lifestyle.

This chapter will describe the role of hydropower from past to present and potentially into the future. Hydropower will be demonstrated to be a safe, reliable, and renewable energy resource worldwide, essential to our overall power and energy mix, both traditionally from rivers, through recent and growing development of pumped energy storage from lower to upper water reservoirs and evolving in the future with tidal and wave energy from the oceans.

11.1 Introduction to Hydropower
11.2 History of Hydropower
11.3 Hydropower History of the United States
11.4 Hydropower Equipment
11.5 Hydropower for Energy Storage
11.6 Ocean and Kinetic Energy
11.7 Hydropower Organizations and Owners
11.8 Hydropower Worldwide
11.9 The Future of Hydropower
11.10 References
This content is only available via PDF.
You do not currently have access to this chapter.
Close Modal

or Create an Account

Close Modal
Close Modal