Hydro energy generation and instrumentation & measurement: hydropower plant efficiency testing

摘要

Hydroelectric power generation was one of the first forms of large-scale electrical energy generation. In recent years, the hydro power industry has reached a new summit with China??s Three Gorges Dam providing an amazing generation capacity of 22 500 MW of renewable energy. In 2012, around 16 % of the world??s consumed electricity was generated from hydropower [1]. Hydropower has a number of advantages compared to other types of electrical energy generation. One of them is using a renewable source of energy: water.