In this article we wish to evaluate efficiency of use of Dnieper cascade hydropower plants on the basis of common approaches to environmental management. We evaluate the efficiency of use the flooded areas of the hydropower station in agriculture. Assessment of the man-made risks includes evaluation of static (regular maintenance of dams) and stochastic (probability of artificial tsunami) compo...

This paper proposes a bi-level stochastic optimization problem (a Stackelberg game) to generate optimal bids for a profit maximizing hydropower producer and presents a mathematical approach to solve it. The first level represents the strategically acting hydropower producer also called a Stackelberg leader, while the second level represents the transmission system operator (TSO) also called a S...

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The Federal Government of Brazil has ambitious plans to build a system of 58 additional hydroelectric dams in the Brazilian Amazon, with Hundreds of additional dams planned for other countries in the watershed. Although hydropower is often billed as clean energy, we argue that the environmental impacts of this project are likely to be large, and will result in substantial loss of biodiversity, ...

Small hydropower projects (SHP) are emerging as solution for sustainable, eco-friendly, long term and costeffective water or renewable energy resource for future. Selecting the appropriate small hydropower project site and its parameters in which to invest is a critical task involving different factors as each project is unique and site specific. Hence such decision-making can be viewed as a mu...

The non-sustainable use of water creates major environmental problems on a world wide scale. It is even an issue in regions with a relative abundance of this resources, like the Alps. Here, major problems are associated with the construction of dams and the operation of hydropower plants. The environmental impact of hydropower has been subjected to a fierce political debate in the eighties, esp...