Hydropower can be always-on baseload power, or spin up almost instantly to follow rising electricity demand. With no fuel to burn and no emissions. Building the power plants is high impact and expensive, but they produce cheap electricity for many decades. Hydro is so good, we’ve used up almost all the locations for it. The few large scale projects in the future will be in China, India, Africa and other developing areas.
Your primer on hydro, with Dr. Scott Tinker
Jan Oivind Johansen Assistant Director General, Norwegian Ministry of Energy
Explaining the benefits of hydro power
Full InterviewDr. Steve Koonin US Undersecretary of Energy
On the pros, cons and future of hydro
Full InterviewJan Oivind Johansen Assistant Director General, Norwegian Ministry of Energy
On the technical and environmental challenges of hydro
Full InterviewJan Oivind Johansen Assistant Director General, Norwegian Ministry of Energy
On the low price of their hydro electricity
Full InterviewJan Oivind Johansen Assistant Director General, Norwegian Ministry of Energy
Describing hydro in Norway
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