"mini hydro" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when referring to miniature hydroelectric power plants, which produce electricity using water resources. For example: "Environmental groups are advocating for the use of mini hydro power plants, which could help to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels."
Implementations of mini hydro schemes with conventional hydraulic, electrical equipment's and controllers have proven very expensive and uneconomical.
Solar, wind, biomass, mini hydro are some of the resources used worldwide to generate energy as per the availability of resources.
Many developing countries that are in need of rural electrification have encountered economical problem when setting up these mini hydro schemes.
The application of these new designs would reduce the overall cost of mini hydro development and would help in making it a cost effective technology.
The results show that Ghana has several RES, such as wind, solar PV, mini hydro and modern biomass that can be exploited for electricity production.
Here, the hydrological data of a potential site for nearly sixty years is obtained and is thoroughly studied for possible development of mini hydro power plant.
The project aimed to demonstrate the utility of and options for providing electricity to such villages through clean mini-hydro.
"At home there are many villages and communities that live by small rivers and streams that could harness mini-hydro systems," Kyagulanyi says.
But Lupa Masa, an basic jungle camp half an hour's hike from Poring hot springs, is built almost entirely from bamboo and the (limited) electricity comes from a mini-hydro plant.
The local government is experimenting with biogas, using animal and human waste to create cooking fuel, and in Yubeng there is talk of expanding the current mini-hydro plant, which now generates just enough electricity to light a few 15-watt bulbs in each home.
The growth in overall installed capacity has largely been on account of investments in mini-hydro generation and the completion of the 250 MW plant at Bujagali.
