Hydropower and floods

S Kumar, ASS Vardhan, ASS Vardhan, RK Saket… - Flood …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
… the hydropower plants’ dam, they also bring a new risk of flooding. This article will examine
the advantages and disadvantages of hydropower plants for flood prevention. Flooding can …

Hydropower generation, flood control and dam cascades: A national assessment for Vietnam

V Nguyen-Tien, RJR Elliott, EA Strobl - Journal of hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
… of dams on hydropower production for the period 1995–2014. With floods being the most …
of the role of hydropower dams in both the mitigation of floods and droughts as well as …

Renewable hydropower generation as a co-benefit of balanced urban water portfolio management and flood risk mitigation

O Sahin, RA Stewart, D Giurco, MG Porter - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2017 - Elsevier
… for hydropower as a … Hydropower could be generated as part of storage level management
in the reservoir aimed at introducing flood retention ‘airspace’ (to mitigate downstream flood

Climate change and the hydropower sector: A global review

A Wasti, P Ray, S Wi, C Folch… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… the hydropower generation and could potentially increase flood damages when coincident
with extreme monsoon precipitation events. Earlier snowmelt increases the premonsoon flow, …

Impact of hydropower reservoirs on floods: Evidence from large river basins in Austria

G Stecher, M Herrnegger - Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… In this study the impact of hydropower reservoirs on floods is … The propagation of the flood
peak reduction downstream is … 30 years show a noteworthy flood peak reduction of over 33…

Safety of hydropower dams in a changing climate

HH Chernet, K Alfredsen… - Journal of Hydrologic …, 2014 - ascelibrary.org
… the Aurland hydropower dams during extreme floods. The design inflow floods for present
and future climate scenarios were calculated using two approaches. Flood frequency analysis …

Hydropower dams of the Mekong River basin: A review of their hydrological impacts

JS Hecht, G Lacombe, ME Arias, TD Dang, T Piman - Journal of hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
… To help manage tradeoffs between dam benefits (hydropower, irrigation, flood control,
domestic water supply, and navigation) and their consequences for livelihoods and ecosystems, …

Methodology that improves water utilization and hydropower generation without increasing flood risk in mega cascade reservoirs

Y Zhou, S Guo, FJ Chang, P Liu, AB Chen - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
flood limiting water levels (FLWLs) of cascade reservoirs are the critical driver for satisfactorily
compromise flood control and hydropower … by extending the flood routing process for …

Reducing climate change induced flood at the cost of hydropower in the lancang‐mekong River Basin

X Yun, Q Tang, S Sun, J Wang - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hydropower dams are proliferating in the riparian countries of the Lancang-Mekong River
… to flooding. However, the tradeoffs between hydropower production and flood control are …

Flood dampening in hydropower systems

BKT Hansen - 2018 - ntnuopen.ntnu.no
Flood dampening has recently been used as an argument for hydropower regulation in
rivers, and this thesis will evaluate the experience with flood dampening in regulated rivers (both …