The Alpine villages producing their own power Electricity Cooperative Pflersch The electricity cooperative in South Tyrol's Pflersch Valley provides the local area with power from small-scale hydropower Small hydropower plants have long sustained remote communities in the Alps – but there is a growing debate over their environmental impact. The World Small Hydropower Development Report by the United Nations Industrial …
Indigenous and environmental groups protested the construction in 1990s but it was revived as an ROR plant in 2011. When climate researcher Dailson Bertassoli went to measure greenhouse gas emissions at the Belo Monte hydropower plant in Brazil, the first thing he noticed was the bubbles. And as fellow author and climate researcher Henrique Sawakuchi pointed out, these “smaller” reservoirs …
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