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Utilization of the world's potential water resources by hydropower installations

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  1. 1.

    A comparable evaluation of hydropower resources for continents and countries should be made on the basis of the technical hydropower potential and not the economic, which depends to a greater extent on the specific economic development for each country at a given time.

  2. 2.

    Works on developing hydro resources are being actively carried out in a number of developed and developing countries by constructing small HESs, but the main role in their development as before is played by the construction of large and medium HESs.

  3. 3.

    Due to the active construction of PSSs in a number of countries, the number of hours of use of the installed capacity has a clear tendency toward a decrease, on the whole in the world it was 3445 h by 1991.

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  1. G. A. Pretro
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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 8, pp. 1–8, August, 1993.

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Pretro, G.A., Fedorov, M.P. Utilization of the world's potential water resources by hydropower installations. Hydrotechnical Construction 27, 435–443 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01545135

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