Europe left out of global hydropower upsurge - study

A study by the World Energy Council (WEC) on the upsurge in power supply from dams, presented at the World Hydropower Congress in Beijing, on 19 May, presents a key finding. The report, entitled 'Charting the upsurge in hydropower development', points out that this source of renewable energy also represents 99% of the world's electricity storage capacity via pumped storage power stations (PSPS). This is the only point of the study on which Europe (in its broadest sense) will still…