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Hydroelectricity

• Power with full force: getting to gender equality in the hydropower sector

  The hydropower sector, while expected to employ 3.7 million individuals by 2050, currently struggles with a significant gender disparity, with women representing only 25% of its workforce. This discrepancy

  • 12/10/2023

  • Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)
  • • Hydroelectricity
    • Women
    • Energy

• Talking Energy - On a lighter note

  <p>Every niche has its own lingo and Energy might have one of the most complicated ones around. Just as an example energy can be measured in six different ways! - Joule, Calorie, Tonne Oil Equvalent,&nbsp;

  • • Energy
    • Thermal Power Plants
    • Coal
    • Rajasthan
    • Renewable Energy
    • Wind Energy
    • Solar Energy
    • Biomass
    • Hydroelectricity
    • Electricity

• Small Hydro Power: A tradeoff between local economic development (if and when it happens) and environmental Impact. Who defines the limits for the latter?

  <p style="margin-bottom: -4em;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="370px" scrolling="no" src="/files/re/home/demo/reportal.htm" width="540px"></iframe><br>Access to Energy and its linkages with poverty alleviation

  • • Energy
    • Poverty
    • Economic Development
    • Electricity
    • Hydroelectricity
    • Rudraprayag (D)
    • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
    • Renewable Energy
    • Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
    • Himalaya
    • Ecosystems
    • Fisheries
    • Rivers
    • Freshwater Ecosystems
    • Small Hydro Power

• Performance Audit Report of Hydropower Development Through Private Sector Participation, Uttarakhand for the Year 2008-2009

  This CAG performance audit on hydropower development in Uttarakhand through private participation – expresses concern over the total neglect of environmental concerns and warns that cumulative impact of

  • Comptroller and Auditor General of India
  • • Hydroelectricity
    • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
    • Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)
    • Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)
    • Environmental Flow
    • Rivers
    • Environment Clearance (EC)
    • Forest Clearance

• A selection of reports and documents on hydropower development at Uttarakhand

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  • • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
    • Floods
    • Hydroelectricity
    • Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)

• Druk Green Power Corporation Ltd

  Bhutan is endowed with an enormous wealth of hydropower potential. Bhutan has a huge hydropower potential estimated at 30,000 MW out of which around 23,760 MW is techno-economically feasible. The idea

  • • Hydroelectricity
    • Bhutan
    • South Asia
    • Renewable Energy

• Ministry of Energy (Nepal)

  Water is an important natural resource of Nepal. The immense quantity of water available in the country and its potentiality to generate hydro based power, provide us the opportunity of overcoming the

  • • Nepal
    • Energy
    • Hydroelectricity
    • Economic Development
    • South Asia

• Uttarakhand hills with solar power don’t prefer ‘taar wali bijli’

  <p>It was half past four in the evening when we reached <em>Garbadhar</em>. It took us about 4 hours and two flat tyres along the <em>Kali river</em> from <em>Dharachulha</em> to get there. The Border

  • • Solar Energy
    • Small Hydro Power
    • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
    • Hydroelectricity
    • National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC)
    • Rural Electrification
    • On-Grid
    • Renewable Energy
    • Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)