RIVER-BASIN MANAGEMENT AND HYDROPOWER SYSTEM IN REGULATED SECTORS

• Autor(a) principal: Peralta, Pedro Diaz
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: AREL FAAr - Amazon's Research and Environmental Law
• Texto Completo: https://www.faar.edu.br/portal/revistas/ojs/index.php/arel-faar/article/view/420

This article addresses the issues of Hydropower generation as a sustainable resource that plays a critical role in Latin American countries’ energy generation pool. Any factor capable of affecting quality, availability, the volume of circulating water, and an average flow of fresh waters, including water management of riverine, estuary, transfers, diversions, and channel systems, should be carefully analyzed. Cases affecting the electrical generation, distribution, and pricing system, add pressure to additional climate change issues arising from extreme weather events, such as drought or heat waves. This fact requires an adequate analysis of scenarios that pose a risk and compromise the electric system’s reliability, such as water shortage and heat waves in tropical areas or heavy snowfalls in cold climates.