Iran is among the 20 countries that have hydropower plants / the Chinese get the most electricity from water

According to the economic correspondent of Fars News Agency, according to the most updated statistics of power plants in the world published by the International Association of Dam Construction (ICOLD), 1360 thousand megawatts of the power generation project capacity in the world is located in the structure of dams and compared to the production of clean electricity and It acts without contamination.

In the list of the top 20 countries in the world in terms of hydroelectric power plant capacity, China is at the top with a capacity of 391,000 megawatts. The second place is given to Brazil with 109.4 thousand megawatts of hydropower plants. The United States of America is in third place with a capacity of 101.9 thousand megawatts.

After the United States, Canada, Russia, India and Japan are ranked fourth to seventh with a capacity of 82.3, 55.7, 51.4 and 49.6 thousand megawatts.

*Iran is among the top 20 countries with hydropower plants

According to this list, Iran is among the top 20 countries in the world in this sector, with a capacity of 12.2 thousand megawatts of renewable electricity, and has been assigned the 19th rank in this list. According to these statistics, 13.5% of the country’s electricity is supplied in this way.

According to Fars report, the technology of building hydroelectric power plants is available to Iran, and Iranian knowledge-based companies, relying on the power of scientists in the field of water and electricity, prepared the field for the localization of this technology.

According to international reports, Iranian hydroelectric turbines can compete with the largest manufacturing companies in this field, including Germany’s Siemens and America’s General Electric.

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