To realize the full benefits of hydropower generation systems in Pakistan, crucial policy reforms are obligatory to develop hydropower by enhancing sustainable generation capacity.
China, he added, planned to develop hydropower on "a considerable scale".
But now, as demand for electricity soars across Africa, Latin America and the south-east Asia, it is increasingly attractive to develop hydropower.
The company's customers include Apple, which recently partnered with Natel to develop hydropower in an existing irrigation canal in Oregon.
Multi-criteria decision analysis has been applied to study the potential to develop hydropower projects with electric power greater than 100 kW in the Ping River Basin, Thailand, and to determine the advantages and disadvantages of the projects in five main criteria: electricity generation, engineering and economics, socio-economics, environment, and stakeholder involvement.
Officials in several provinces have seized on the shortages as reason to develop more hydropower.
The programme offers technical, financial and business advice to small- and medium-sized firms looking to develop micro-hydropower plants to serve rural communities.
The World Bank is making a major push to develop large-scale hydropower, something it had all but abandoned a decade ago but now sees as crucial to resolving the tension between economic development and the drive to tame carbon use.
The main strategy for developing generation resources in China is to optimize the coal industry structure and to develop nuclear power, hydropower, wind power and other renewable energy sources vigorously.
Similarly, the Mekong River Commission, Asian Development Bank, and World Wildlife Fund have joined efforts to develop a Rapid Basin-Wide Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Tool as a way of reducing environmental impacts from hydropower.
