Advantages of Hydroelectric Power

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By Z. Perry


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Hydroelectric energy offers a number of advantages for people who use it, the environment, and electricity suppliers. Read on to learn more about the advantages of hydroelectric power:

1. Using this type of energy to generate electricity is not dependent upon the price of uranium, oil, or other types of fuel. This makes electricity costs lower and more stable, one of its most significant advantages.

2. The pollution created by hydroelectric energy generation is quite minimal. There is some pollution involved in initially constructing the power stations, but this is true of all power plants. It also does not produce radioactive waste or involve the environmental impact of fuel being transported to it.

3. It doesn't require many employees to run a hydroelectric station. According to wikipedia.org, most plants of this type are largely automated. This is another one of the advantages which help keep the cost of hydroelectricity low.

4. Hydroelectric power stations can be set up in almost any size, depending upon the river or stream used to operate them; big enough to power a single home, factory, small town, or large city.

5. Another of its advantages is that hydroelectric is a renewable form of energy, like wind and solar; it does not rely upon finite resources like natural gas or coal to generate power.

6. Hydroelectric stations can operate for many years after they are built. Wikipedia.org states that a number of operational hydro stations were constructed fifty to one-hundred years ago; in contrast to this, IAEA.org indicates that the "design life" of nuclear power plants is generally thirty to forty years.

7. Small hydro electricity generation systems sometimes offer more economic advantages for home owners than solar power, and tend to last longer than solar panels do.

The above-mentioned factors make hydroelectric a form of energy generation which offers advantages with regard to cost, pollution, flexibility of installation, and conservation of resources.


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johnr54  says:
2 years ago

I remember many years ago when low head hydro, which doesn't require the large dams that conventional hydro uses was going to be the energy source of the future. I guess the problem was that we would have had a small dam in every stream in the US, not to mention the power lines to each one.

hv  says:
10 months ago

hi im doin hw om hydro power the video kinda helped

Amrita   says:
9 months ago

Hey!! I was doing a school project on hydroelectric energy. We had 6 questions and one of them were what are the advantages of hydroelectric energy? i filled my entire page with hub comments......

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amrita deora!!!!!!!!!

mia  says:
9 months ago

i'm doing homework on different types of electricity, i was unsure about hydroelectricity but the video helped!

James G  says:
9 months ago

Thanx a lot for the help i had a sheet that had a list (advantages, Disadvantages, current use, Future developments, appropriate for Australia, and interesting info) THE SITE HELPED A LOT WITH THE ADVANTAGES THE VIDEO AINT SO GOOD

Danny Faguston  says:
9 months ago

I was stuck on hw cheers for the help

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kylegasler  says:
9 months ago

this helped alot, me and my friend did a project and.....well it just helped..ALOT!

Presott ere 2k9  says:
8 months ago

Hey, this is a gr8 page, have u got a list of disadvantages?

zach  says:
7 months ago

this is great

shamo  says:
6 months ago

thanx for this information .....it was great help gud job!!!!!! :)

d  says:
6 months ago

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camo joe  says:
5 months ago

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michael  says:
5 months ago

this page helped me alot in my science project!

angel  says:
4 months ago

i'm doing a project on hydro electricity at school and the info about it is great it helped me heaps and i reckon i'm gonna get an A for this project

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Kwe3n  says:
3 months ago

this is awsum...:):):)are there disadvantages also???....

C.!!  says:
3 months ago

This page really helped thanx for the info =)

KING   says:
3 months ago

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Science  says:
2 months ago

thanks for the info we really thank you and this is a great help for us.... Hope you still give meaningful informations!!!

jersan  says:
2 months ago

i really appreciate this video, its very educational......

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Student 101  says:
6 weeks ago

good page... very helpful, strong information and good facts.

thanks much

edward  says:
5 weeks ago

also carring out a project on how electricity is generated

using water

minimew  says:
4 weeks ago

wow it looks so easy to make hydroelectric power

mc cool  says:
4 weeks ago

hi.x

cool site:)

jasmin  says:
2 weeks ago

i think you should have videos of hydrelectric power

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8 days ago

should have more pictures and videos

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3 days ago

hell yesss!!!!!!! (:

Rowan  says:
3 days ago

hey thanks for info i am also doing some work on hep stations - was helpfull and thanks! :))

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