When Hydropower Provides Most of Your Electricity (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

When Hydropower Provides Most of Your Electricity

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Norway is one of the top-ten hydropower electricity producers worldwide, with more than 95 percent of domestic power production from hydropower. A new tool developed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) enables policymakers and industry to understand the tradeoffs between hydropower and loss of land and biodiversity from when lands are drowned under reservoirs.

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Ånund Killingtveit/NTNU

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