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Pelton Turbines

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In nature, hydraulic energy is a type of usable energy which can be directly converted into mechanical energy. It has since more than one hundred years mainly been utilized for the production of electricity. As a most important type of the renewable energy, hydraulic energy shows its very broad perspective in the future. More and more hydropower plants will be built or refurbished worldwide. In many countries, hydraulic energy will be the main source for producing electrical energy. In Norway, for example, almost the entire production of electricity is from the hydropower. According to the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (BFE 2004), the hydropower provides about 60 % of the total electricity production in Switzerland.

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Zhang, Z. (2016). Introduction. In: Pelton Turbines. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31909-4_1

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