HYDROELECTRIC POWER

STATIONS

OUTLINE
History
Famous engineers / Most significant construction
Impact on the environment
How its changed and is changing
Future aspect
Comparison to similar incentives

HISTORY OF
HYDROELECTRIC
POWER
Water wheels used to grind wheat by ancient
Greeks.
Invented by French military & hydraulic
engineer, Bernard forest.
The evolution of modern hydropower turbine
began in the mid-1700s.
The invention of first electric generator,
Michael faraday.
Appleton, the first operational hydroelectric
station in us, in 1882.
Contributes 16% of the global electricity
generation today.
Hydropower.org. (2016). A brief history of hydropower | International
Hydropower Association. [online] Available at: http://www.hydropower.org/abrief-history-of-hydropower [Accessed 28 Oct. 2016].

FAMOUS ENGINEERS
James Francis Francis turbine (1849)
Lester Allan Pelton Pelton wheel (1880)
Viktor Kaplan Kaplan turbine (1913)
William Armstrong Cragside (1878)
H.J. Rogers Vulcan Street Plant (1882)

IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT

Negative:

Greenhouse gases emitted during construction

Dams cause flooded areas, which emit methane
Forests destroyed beforehand
Disruption of habitat
Destruction of natural water flow
Upstream and downstream

Positive
regulate flooding
renewable energy source

tps://www.energyrefuge.com/archives/hydro-electricity.htm

HOW IT CHANGED/ES
Micro-hydropower: affordable, easy to maintain, direct
energy resource
pumped storage hydroelectric station
Brazil one of the largest projects:
reshape , location, reallocate the river

https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/cli
p/29129
Rio De Janeiro Power Grid

FUTURE ASPECT
Worlds population will consume50%more energy by 2035
New ideas focus on benefitting from moving water rather than
controlling it
Hydrokinetic generation is thought of as the future of hydroelectric
power
Operates in much the same way as wind power does
Wave power is another method being developed

COMPARISON TO SIMILAR INCENTIVE

It's more dependable than wind and solar power
Hydropower facilities are exceptionally good at meeting rapidly
changing demands for electricity
System is quiet and Typically low maintenance
Lowest cost per watt hour vs solar and wind

SOURCES
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/our-energychoices/renewable-energy/how-hydroelectricenergy.html#.WBDOYfrhDIU
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/wuhy.html
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/our-energychoices/renewable-energy/environmental-impacts-hydroelectricpower.html#.WBDPZ_rhDIU
http://environment-ecology.com/energy-and-environment/100hydropower-and-the-environment.html
Hydropower.org. (2016). A brief history of hydropower |
International Hydropower Association. [online] Available at:
http://www.hydropower.org/a-brief-history-of-hydropower
[Accessed 28 Oct. 2016].