Hydropower development in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region: Issues, policies and opportunities

Hussain, Abid; Sarangi, Gopal K.; Pandit, Anju; Ishaq, Sultan; Mamnun, Nabir; Ahmad, Bashir; Jamil, Muhammad

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2019.03.010

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“…At the time of writing, more than four hundred large dams with a total generation capacity exceeding 200 GW are planned in the Himalayan regions of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Pakistan (Hussain et al, 2019). If these projects come to fruition, there will be a dam every 32 km, making the Himalaya the most heavily dammed region in the world (Amrith, 2018, p. 300).…”

Section: Temporalities Of Nation‐building and Anticipationmentioning

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Timescapes of Himalayan hydropower: Promises, project life cycles, and precarities

2020

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In this paper, we review the existing social science scholarship focused on hydropower development in the Himalayan region, using an interpretive lens attuned to issues of time and temporality. While the spatial politics of Himalayan hydropower are well examined in the literature, an explicit examination of temporal politics is lacking. In this paper, we present a conceptual framework organized around the heuristic of timescapes, highlighting temporal themes implicit in the existing literature. In three sections, we explore the temporal politics of anticipation that shape hydropower dreams, the intersecting temporalities and rhythms that modulate the life cycles of hydropower projects, and the ways that geological and hydrological time affect both hydropower development and broader Himalayan futures. Along the way, we pose a series of questions useful for framing future research given the significant climatic, geophysical, and sociopolitical changes underway in the Himalayan bioregion, calling for greater analytical attention to time, temporality, and temporal ethics in future studies of hydropower in the Himalayas and beyond.

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Section: Temporalities Of Nation‐building and Anticipationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Timescapes of Himalayan hydropower: Promises, project life cycles, and precarities

2020

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“…HDI-Energy Nexus [10] In the contemporary world struggle with poverty alleviation, energy access projects need to take in to account the social and economic impact that stem from these projects. Countries world overachieve disproportionate social and economic development from similar energy consumption per capita [22]. From the figure 5, Denmark for instance, achieves similar HDI from half the energy consumption as Canada [19].…”

Section: International Journal Of Engineering Workmentioning

confidence: 97%

Economic Impact Assessment of Mini Micro Hydel Power Projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Rahman¹

2019

IJEW

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The exhaustion of the fossil fuel supply of the world is an understood eventuality, considering the pace at which these resources are being exploited the world over. More so when the global energy requirements are increasing without much interruption; suffice to say the current state of operations in the energy arena is not going to last long. Alternative energy resources, in this worldview, provide an auspicious avenue of fulfilling the burgeoning human thirst for energy. The impact of these alternative energy resources utilization will be twofold: the satiation of the energy demand, and the culmination of the global warming resulting from the incessant use of the fossil fuels. The urge for alternative resources of energy is key to survival and demand of future. In comparison to all the alternative resources of energy, Hydro power present better results in terms of efficiency and long term viability.The viability of Hydro Power is subject to its high initial cost and major construction with no return in the initial phase of construction. This work is aimed at presenting the technical and financial aspects of Micro-Hydro power. The financial assessment is based on the Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return and Benefit to Cost Ratio (B/C). Apart from the social benefits to the residents and improving the quality of life, the financial feasibility is tested on the basis the above parameters and results shows the micro hydro are feasible in the lights of mentioned parameters. The proposition is tested and implemented on three different case studies, i.e. Ajmera Hydro power plant, Bersa Payen and Sheri Dumrai HPP. The data shows successful results in the all the mentioned cases.

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“…The annual costs among the representative year include the fixed and variable costs with a discount rate (γ ) of 5% as formulated in (2).…”

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“…However, resources like hydropower, coal, and, gas reserves are concentrated in the northern and eastern parts. Nepal and Bhutan are blessed with large hydropower potential but that are underexploited [2], coal is abundant in the eastern part of India [3], and a lot of natural gas reserves exist in Bangladesh [4]. This uneven spatial distribution of natural resources has created a need for regional co-operation in the energy sector, which requires a detailed quantitative analysis of the economic benefits the participating countries will make.…”

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Power sector analysis of the BBIN sub‐region with a spatially disaggregated dynamic power generation mix model

Gyanwali

Komiyama

Fujii

2020

IEEJ Transactions Elec Engng

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This study evaluates the optimal expansion of the electricity sector of the BBIN (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal) sub-region with a detailed analysis of unevenly distributed resources and electricity demand, by developing a multi-regional dynamic power sector optimization model, characterized by 27 nodes, 45 fuel transport lines, and 63 transmission lines in hourly temporal resolution. Scenarios developed in this paper assess the impact of 2 • C Paris agreement on production, transportation, and consumption of indigenous resources like coal and gas, the share of renewables and nuclear in the power generation mix, the utilization of huge untapped hydro resources through an expansion of cross-border transmission lines. The simulation results show that hydro, wind, nuclear, and PV will be the dominant power sources, thus reducing the current share of coal, under carbon regulation scenario. The requirements of PV exceed its estimated commercially exploitable potential in most of the nodes in the nuclear-restricted scenario. Expanding cross-border transmission capacity will be an effective way to exploit untapped hydro resources so that Bangladesh and India can import power from Bhutan and Nepal. Although there is a slight increase in coal demand in the future, capacity expansion of fuel networks is not economical under adopted emission levels.

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Hydropower development in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region: Issues, policies and opportunities

Cited by 90 publications

References 28 publications

Timescapes of Himalayan hydropower: Promises, project life cycles, and precarities

Timescapes of Himalayan hydropower: Promises, project life cycles, and precarities

Economic Impact Assessment of Mini Micro Hydel Power Projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Power sector analysis of the BBIN sub‐region with a spatially disaggregated dynamic power generation mix model

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