If developed, it could meet 30 per cent of China’s electricity needs.
A team of researchers from Britain, China, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand and the United States studied data from nearly 3 million rivers around the world to determine the total amount of unused hydropower potential.potential developmentDo you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with
“Many countries in Asia and Africa also have not maximised their profitable hydropower potentials,” the team said. The region is also home to one of the largest rivers in the world – the Brahmaputra, or Yarlung Tsangpo, which flows through China, India, Bhutan and Bangladesh. The scientists said cooperation between the countries must improve to better manage river flow and reduce conflictsIn Europe, hydropower potential was “extremely exploited”, with developed hydropower strongly exceeding its full profitable potential, the researchers found.
Global hydropower capacity would need to double by 2050 to put the world on a pathway to net-zero emissions by 2050, according to a road map set out by the IEA in 2021. The team took the middle ground by considering the benefits as well as the environmental and societal impacts of building hydropower plants, according to Xu Rongrong, another co-lead author and a research assistant professor at SUSTech.
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