Micro, mini and small hydro – What is the difference? The size designations for hydropower plants are a little misleading because, for example, a ‘mini’ hydro system could produce enough electricity for a thousand ‘average’ UK homes, which by most people’s standards is quite large! This anomaly in terminology has come about because hydropower really developed as a major large-scale energy producer, so the designations were relative to very large ‘Gigawatt scale’ hydropower. The objective of this report is to write a complete description for the difference between them. How do micro hydro-systems work? Giving examples.

Micro, mini and small hydro – What is the difference? The size designations for hydropower plants are a little misleading because, for example, a ‘mini’ hydro system could produce enough electricity for a thousand ‘average’ UK homes, which by most people’s standards is quite large! This anomaly in terminology has come about because hydropower really developed as a major large-scale energy producer, so the designations were relative to very large ‘Gigawatt scale’ hydropower. The objective of this report is to write a complete description for the difference between them. How do micro hydro-systems work? Giving examples.

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Author:DUNLAP, Richard A.

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Chapter11: Hydroelectric Energy

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