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

The hydropower potential in the upper Indus basin under historical hydro-climatology was prepared using the Hydropower Potential Exploration (HyPE) model. Under historical hydro-climatology, the HyPE model was run to explore theoretical potential followed by technical, financial and sustainable potential under two types of hydropower development policy scenarios. The energy focus scenarios (Large/Medium/Mixed) explored the impact of different scales of hydropower development. Additionally, for sustainable potential, the geo-hazard risk representation scenarios (Risk-averse/Cost-based/Multi-hazard) evaluated three ways to represent geo-hazard risk in hydropower development policies. Furthermore, historical analysis quantified technical, financial and sustainable potential under full and remaining cases. This dataset was produced under WorkPackage 2 of the SustainIndus project.

Date ( Publication ): 2023-11-20

Author

ICIMOD, Utrecht University - Sanita Dhaubanjar ( PhD Fellow )

009779808053898

Purpose: The dataset shows the change in hydropower potential available for exploitation under changes in physical, technical, financial, environmental and sustainability policy constraints. The scenario outputs provide basis for formulating hydropower development policies that promote sustainable hydropower.

Status: Completed

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Keywords ( Theme )

hydropower potential
sustainable hydropower
historical hydrology
theoretical potential
technical potential
financial potential
sustainable potential
energy focus scenarios,
geo-hazard risk scenarios

Keywords ( Place )

Upper Indus
Afghanistan
India
Pakistan
Kabul
Swat
Indus Main
Jhelum
Chenab
Ravi
Beas
Satluj

Use limitation: Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: Dhaubanjar, S. (2023). Hydropower potential in the upper Indus basin under historical hydro-climatology [Data set]. ICIMOD, Utrecht University. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.1973690. The associated paper for viewing and citation: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.122372

Access constraints: Copyright

Use constraints: Copyright

Spatial representation type: Text, table

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

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.