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what is the difference between a big hydro electric project and micro hydel project

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What is the difference between micro, mini and small hydro?

Micro, mini and small hydro – What is the difference? The size designations for hydropower plants are a little misleading because, for example, a ‘mini’ hydro system could actually produce enough electricity for a thousand ‘average’ UK homes, which by most people’s standards is quite large! This anomaly in terminology has come about because hydropower really developed as a major large-scale energy producer so the designations were relative to very large ‘Gigawatt scale’ hydropower. There also isn’t a worldwide agreed definition, but the table below shows the most widely accepted categories. The table also shows the number of ‘average’ UK homes electrical energy needs met to put things in context.

Hydro CategoryPower RangeNo. of Homes PoweredPico0 kW – 5 kW0 – 5Micro5 kW – 100 kW5 – 100Mini100 kW – 1 MW100 – 1,000Small1 MW – 10 MW1,000 – 10,000Medium10 MW – 100 MW10,000 – 100,000Large100 MW+100,000+

Strictly speaking Renewables First operates in the micro hydro and mini hydro categories, so from 5 kW to 1 MW power output, though because so many people refer to this scale of hydro as ‘small’ we also use this designation a lot