The phrase
"hydropower sector" refers to the industry or field that involves the production and distribution of electricity using the energy from moving or falling water, such as rivers or dams.
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Policies supporting growth in the
small hydropower sector are often crafted at the national or international level, Kibler noted.
«Individually, large hydropower dams will always cause greater environmental impacts, but with rapid growth of the
small hydropower sector, our rivers might just suffer from many small cuts.»
Current policies in China and many other nations encourage the growth of the small
hydropower sector.
«I think one of the most important results of this paper is to show that the development of the small
hydropower sector is actually happening in many regions of the world,» Couto said.
If this expectation comes true, it will hamper China's
hydropower sector, which contributes most of the country's carbon - free electricity.
The hydropower sector is set to double in potential to 2,000 GW capacity by 2050.
World Energy Resources Report 2015: Charting the Upsurge in Hydropower Development is a critical and expansive review of the current state and trends within
the hydropower sector, examining the sector's development from technological, economic and socio - political perspectives.
World Energy Resources
The hydropower sector is set to double in potential to 2,000 GW capacity by 2050.
This represents jobs in the geothermal, biomass, wind, energy effficiency, solar, and
hydropower sectors.
But while employment rose in solar PV and wind, they were offset by losses in the solar thermal and small
hydropower sectors, leading to an overall job decline of 2 % in the country.
For example the International Finance Corporation is investing in a number of projects linked to abuses, and the Inter-American Development bank is a major player in Honduras»
hydropower sector.
(6) US - backed multilateral banks are also major investors in the country's
hydropower sector, as well as some of the projects Global Witness pinpoints as sites of conflict.