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Recorded hydropower plants in Europe

Figure Created 02 Aug 2021 Published 07 Sep 2021 Last modified 19 Jan 2022
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The figure shows the number of existing, under construction and planned hydropower plants by size categories (installed megaWatts) in Europe.

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The methodology is described in FLUVIUS, WWF, RiverWatch, EuroNatur, GEOTA, 2019, Hydropower pressure in Europe - the story in numbers. Available at https://wwfeu.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/hydropower_pressure_on_european_rivers_the_story_in_numbers_web.pdf

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Number of hydropower plants in three categories; existing, under construction and planned.

Installed megawatts (MW)

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EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
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European Environment Agency (EEA)
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EuroNatur
GEOTA
Riverwatch
WWF
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Hydropower pressure on European rivers: The story in numbers by WWF, RiverWatch, EuroNatur, GEOTA is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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External Data Spec Europe-wide inventory of hydropower plants (copyright-protected) The inventory of hydropower plants data was compiled on a European scale to provide information about hydropower dams with the study commissioned by WWF, RiverWatch, EuroNatur and GEOTA.
External Data Spec EU-Hydro – River Network Database, Version 1.3 EU-Hydro is a dataset for all EEA39 countries providing photo-interpreted river network, consistent of surface interpretation of water bodies (lakes and wide rivers), and a drainage model (also called Drainage Network), derived from EU-DEM, with catchments and drainage lines and nodes. The EU-Hydro dataset is distributed in separate files (river network and drainage network) for each of the 35 major basins of the EEA39 area. The production of EU-Hydro and the derived layers was coordinated by the European Environment Agency in the frame of the EU Copernicus programme.

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