Renewable Energy Essentials: Hydropower
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IEA (2010), Renewable Energy Essentials: Hydropower, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/reports/renewable-energy-essentials-hydropower, License: CC BY 4.0
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Hydropower is currently the most common form of renewable energy and plays an important part in global power generation. Worldwide hydropower produced 3 288 TWh, just over 16% of global electricity production in 2008, and the overall technical potential for hydropower is estimated to be more than 16 400 TWh/yr.