Its rivers, plunging from well-watered highlands into deep canyons, have hydropower potential.
Utility executives see various advantages in having hydropower in their generating plant portfolios.
We have hydropower; Brazil could easily reach the Pacific coast via Paraguay; we have lots of rivers, plenty of fresh water and fertile land.
You could make the argument that our ability to ramp up as a wartime industrial power was related to the fact that we had hydropower coming out of our ears.
Russia has 102 hydropower plants with capacities of over 100 MW, making it fifth in the world for hydropower production.
The Lancang Mekong River has plentiful hydropower resources mainly concentrated in China, Laos, and Cambodia.
Brazil also has enviable hydropower resources, and if the social, environment and cultural impacts are well handled, this potential should be used too.
The roughly 300-mile (480-km) river, which from source to mouth drops about 500 feet (150 metres), has small hydropower developments.
In Switzerland, for example, a recent study showed that loss of glacial mass because of the warming climate has increased hydropower production by 3percentto4percentcent since 1980.
Meanwhile, widespread drought has diminished hydropower production.
