WBs hydropower rehabilitation will require over 600 mln/€ in the period 2017-2022 by Dr Lorenc Gordani on 07th May 2017
WBs hydropower rehabilitation will require over 600 mln/€ in the period 2017-2022 by Dr Lorenc Gordani on 07th May 2017 The majority of installed capacity in the region was put online in the sixties and in the seventies of the previous century. An industry standard is that approximately 40-50 years is considered an appropriate operational lifetime before major rehabilitation of HPPs is required. In the context of the WB6, this shows that at least 4,500 MWs of HPPs are now getting into, or already are in, the age for rehabilitation. A brief analysis of capacity and generation increase in rehabilitation performed on projects for which sufficient data are available concluded that the average increase in capacity is approx. 4% and in generation due to refurbishment is relatively modest at 5-6%.…