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Development of an evaluation procedure and tool for hydropower potential determination at South African dams
Dissertation (MEng (Water Resources Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/83824 Development of an evaluation procedure and tool for hydropower potential determination at South African dams Loots, Ione reschroeder96@gmail.com Coetzee, Gert Louis Van Dijk, Marco Schroeder, Reinhard Hydropower Dams Electricity Renewable Energy Retrofitting Dissertation (MEng (Water Resources Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2022. South Africa is in a critical power situation and is in dire need of additional generation capacity. Thus, renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and hydropower should be evaluated to identify high potential and cost-effective sites. South Africa, being a water-scarce country, is already heavily dammed, meaning there are no more suitable new sites for conventional hydropower generation. Instead, novel solutions such as retrofitting hydropower installations to existing infrastructure, such as at existing dams, is required. During the study a procedure and tool that can evaluate hydropower potential at South African dams, was developed. By applying the procedure to 118 DWS operated dams it was found that there is indeed retrofit hydropower potential at South African dams, with a total estimated hydropower potential of 122 MW with an annual energy output of between 393 and 479 GWh. Water Research Commission Civil Engineering MEng (Water Resources Engineering) Unrestricted 2022-02-11T12:31:11Z 2022-02-11T12:31:11Z 2022-05 2022 Dissertation * A2022 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/83824 en © 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Hydropower Dams Electricity Renewable Energy Retrofitting Development of an evaluation procedure and tool for hydropower potential determination at South African dams |
| title | Development of an evaluation procedure and tool for hydropower potential determination at South African dams |
| title_full | Development of an evaluation procedure and tool for hydropower potential determination at South African dams |
| title_fullStr | Development of an evaluation procedure and tool for hydropower potential determination at South African dams |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of an evaluation procedure and tool for hydropower potential determination at South African dams |
| title_short | Development of an evaluation procedure and tool for hydropower potential determination at South African dams |
| title_sort | development of an evaluation procedure and tool for hydropower potential determination at south african dams |
| topic | Hydropower Dams Electricity Renewable Energy Retrofitting |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/83824 |