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Hydropower potential in the upper Indus basin under future hydro-climatology

The hydropower potential in the upper Indus basin under future hydro-climatology was prepared using the Hydropower Potential Exploration (HyPE) as part of Work Package 2 in the SustainIndus project. Under future hydro-climatology, the HyPE model was run to explore theoretical potential followed by technical, financial and sustainable potential under policy assumptions for the mixed energy focus scenarios and risk-averse geo-hazard risk representation. In total, 72 future scenarios are considered combining CMIP6 model ensembles for 2 future time horizons (Mid: 2036-2065, Far: 2066-2095), 3 Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP 4.5, 7.0 and 8.5), 4 corner Global Climate Models for each RCP (Cold Dry, Cold Wet, Warm Dry, Warm Wet) and 3 Hydropower Potential classes (Technical, financial and sustainable).

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Date ( Publication )
2023-11-20
Author
  ICIMOD, Utrecht University - Sanita Dhaubanjar ( PhD Fellow )
009779808053898
Purpose
The dataset shows the change in theoretical, technical, financial and sustainable hydropower potential available for exploitation under future hydro-climatology. They provide a basis for considering climate resilience in plans and policies for sustainable hydropower development.
Status
Completed
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • future hydropower potential
  • sustainable hydropower
  • historical hydrology
  • theoretical potential
  • technical potential
  • financial potential
  • sustainable potential
  • climate change
Keywords ( Place )
  • Upper Indus
  • Afghanistan
  • India
  • Pakistan
  • Kabul
  • Swat
  • Indus Main
  • Jhelum
  • Chenab
  • Ravi
  • Beas
  • Satluj
Use limitation
Made available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY 4.0). Suggested citation: Dhaubanjar, S. (2023). Hydropower potential in the upper Indus basin under future hydro-climatology [Data set]. ICIMOD, Utrecht University. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.1973697. The associated paper for viewing and citation: https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2023.1256249
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Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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Distributor
  ICIMOD -
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OnLine resource
Indus Knowledge Partnership Platform (IKPP) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

The IKPP platform consolidates various dataset available for the Indus basin on hydrology, climate change, renewable energy resources and water-energy-food security.

OnLine resource
SustainIndus ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
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a52f9272-37d8-4c9c-a51c-3ada5810a0d5 XML
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
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Date stamp
2025-04-09T16:23:22
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
Author
  ICIMOD, Uterecht University - Sanita Dhaubanjar ( PhD Fellow )
Nepal
 
 

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climate change financial potential future hydropower potential historical hydrology sustainable hydropower sustainable potential technical potential theoretical potential

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