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ENDNOTES 02 MARKET AND INDUSTRY TRENDS - HYDROPOWER
HYDROPOWER
1 Global capacity estimate based on International Hydropower
Association (IHA), 2016 Hydropower Status Report (London:
May 2016), http://www.hydropower.org, and on IHA, personal
communication with REN21, February–April 2016. Total installed
capacity of 1,212 GW (33.7 GW added), less 145 GW of pumped
storage (2.5 GW added), yields 1,067 GW (31.2 GW added).
The difference of 3 GW relative to the values reported here
pertains to data for China. Due to uncertainty about full station
commissioning dates falling between 2014 and 2015, IHA’s
Hydropower Status Report is reporting 19 GW added in 2015, and
REN21’s Global Status Report is reporting 16 GW.
2 Country data from the following sources: China: capacity,
utilisation, demand and investment from China National Energy
Agency, summary of national electric industry statistics for 2015,
http://www.nea.gov.cn/2016-01/15/c_135013789.htm (using Google
Translate); generation (1.11 thousand TWh) from China Electricity
Council, overview of China’s power industry in 2015, 3 February
2016, http://www.cec.org.cn/yaowenkuaidi/2016-02-03/148763.
html, and (1,126.42 TWh) from National Bureau of Statistics
of China, “Statistical communiqué of the People’s Republic of
China on 2015 national economic and social development,”
press release (Beijing: 29 February 2016), http://www.stats.
gov.cn/english/PressRelease/201602/t20160229_1324019.
html. Brazil: 2,506 MW (2,299 MW large hydro, 117 MW small
hydro and around 90 MW very small hydro) added in 2015, per
National Agency for Electrical Energy (ANEEL), “Resumo geral
dos novos empreendimentos de geração,” http://www.aneel.
gov.br/arquivos/zip/Resumo_Geral_das_Usinas_março_2015.
zip, updated February 2016; large hydro capacity is listed as
86,366 MW at end-2015, small (1–30 MW) hydro at 4,886 MW
and very small (25 MW) of 1,606 MW from
idem, “Executive summary of the power sector (monthly),” http://
www.cea.nic.in/monthlyarchive.html; installed capacity in 2015
(