Talk:Hydroelectricity

Failure risks
As of 2018 the National Performance of Dams Program Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering has tabulated the number of casualties as the result of hydroelectric dam failures, it also mentions the number of people in a year. Having a total count of the casualties works well for comparing data to other power sources. https://npdp.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/reports/npdp_dam_failure_summary_compilation_v1_2018.pdf Marcsome (talk) 02:38, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 December 2022
Update is required. There are now 6 facilities over 10 GW that are in operation worldwide. Baihetan hydropower plant was formally completed yesterday and connected to the grid and fully operational now. And it has 16GW which makes it the second largest in the world. 

Please go to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity#Large_facilities

And change third paragraph to;

Currently, only "six" facilities over 10 GW (10,000 MW) are in operation worldwide, see table below.

Cite in this link

And also update the table to include all 6 currently operational hydro plants over 10GW. LastKeySoraya (talk) 01:38, 21 December 2022 (UTC)


 * ✅ — CAPTAIN JTK (talk) 15:35, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 April 2023
Change

"China is the largest hydroelectricity producer, with 721 terawatt-hours of production in 2010, representing around 17 percent of domestic electricity use. Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Austria, Switzerland, Venezuela and several other countries have a majority of the internal electric energy production from hydroelectric power."

to

" According to the report of International Hydropower Association, China is the largest hydroelectricity producer, with 1340 terawatt-hours of production in 2021, representing around 16 percent of domestic electricity use. Brazil, Canada, United States, Russia, India, Norway, Japan, Sweden and France are the top producers of hyderoelectricty in the world. Several other countries such as, Paraguay, Tajikistan, Nepal, Albania, Zambia, Mozambique, Costa Rica and Iceland have a majority of the internal electric energy production from hydroelectric power. " Shan0388 (talk) 21:36, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: The sources you provide are self-published, as Ghosh appears to be running that website without editorial oversight. Self-published sources are usually not considered reliable per WP:SPS. Actualcpscm (talk) 14:46, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 April 2024
The link in the second paragraph to the old power station in this sentence: 'The "old Schoelkopf Power Station No. 1", US, near Niagara Falls, began to produce electricity in 1881.' currently directs to the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses_Niagara_Power_Plant#Origins.

There is a more appropriate link available, to an article about the specific power station mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoellkopf_Power_Station. Nev09 (talk) 00:10, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ Liu1126 (talk) 00:37, 27 April 2024 (UTC)