Most large plants serve multiple purposes: hydropower generation, flood control, storage of drinking water, and the impounding of water for irrigation.
With support of the data collected from a fieldwork survey, this study reports the multiple facets of hydropower development risks in China as perceived by main project participants.
Model simulation output was used to project cumulative changes to hydraulic, sediment, and water quality parameters likely to occur in this relatively unique system under multiple scenarios of hydropower development in the LMB.
As a result, a simulation-based optimization model was proposed to maximize multiple benefits, such as flood control, hydropower generation and navigation.
Many of the larger reservoirs and water projects located in the Sierra Nevada are operated for multiple uses, such as water supply, hydropower, flood control, environmental mitigation, and recreation.
This paper presents a comparative analysis of different mathematical programming approaches for optimizing the hydro unit commitment (HUC) problem with cascaded plants, multiple generating units, and a head-dependent hydropower model.
The study provides evidence for the multiple benefits of a national system of large hydropower dams using a cascade design.
Sediment accumulation can significantly impact the useful life of dams and the multiple functions served by those dams such as flood attenuation, hydropower, and water supply.
This is the approach scientists at Princeton recently took with fascinating results for the Mekong, see "Trading-off fish biodiversity, food security, and hydropower in the Mekong River Basin" and "Dam choices: Analyses for multiple needs".
