Survey Of Energy Resources
HYDRO POWER
Hydropower: capability at end-1999

 

Gross theoretical capability

Technically exploitable capability

Economically exploitable capability

TWh/yr

Algeria

12

5

Angola

150

90

65

Benin

2

1

Burkina Faso

1

N

N

Burundi

>6

>1

1

Cameroon

294

115

103

Central African Republic

7

3

Chad

N

N

Comoros

Congo (Brazzaville)

>125

>50

Congo (Democratic Rep.)

1 397

774

<419

Côte d'Ivoire

46

>12

12

Egypt (Arab Rep.)

>125

>50

50

Equatorial Guinea

Ethiopia

650

>260

260

Gabon

200

80

33

Ghana

17

11

7

Guinea

26

19

15

Guinea-Bissau

1

N

N

Kenya

>30

9

Lesotho

5

2

Liberia

28

11

Madagascar

321

180

49

Malawi

15

6

Mali

>12

>5

Mauritania

Mauritius

N

N

Morocco

12

5

4

Mozambique

50

38

32

Namibia

9

9

9

Niger

>3

>1

1

Nigeria

43

32

30

Réunion

Rwanda

1

N

São Tomé & Príncipe

Senegal

11

4

2

Sierra Leone

17

7

Somalia

2

1

South Africa

73

11

5

Sudan

48

19

2

Swaziland

4

1

N

Tanzania

39

20

2

Togo

4

2

Tunisia

1

N

N

Uganda

>18

>7

Zambia

52

29

11

Zimbabwe

19

18

Total Africa

>3 876

>1 888

Belize

1

N

N

Canada

1 289

951

523

Costa Rica

223

43

Cuba

5

2

Dominica

N

N

N

Dominican Republic

50

9

6

El Salvador

7

5

2

Greenland

470

14

Grenada

N

N

N

Guadeloupe

Guatemala

55

22

Haiti

4

1

N

Honduras

16

6

Jamaica

N

N

N

Mexico

154

64

38

Nicaragua

33

10

7

Panama

26

>12

12

Puerto Rico

St Vincent & the Grenadines

United States of America

4 485

529

376

Total North America

6 818

>1 668

Argentina

172

130

Bolivia

178

126

50

Brazil

3 040

1 488

811

Chile

227

162

Colombia

1 000

200

140

Ecuador

115

32

16

French Guiana

Guyana

61

> 25

25

Paraguay

111

85

68

Peru

1 578

>260

260

Surinam

32

13

Uruguay

32

10

Venezuela

345

261

130

Total South America

6 891

>2 792

Afghanistan

Armenia

22

8

6

Azerbaijan

44

16

7

Bangladesh

5

2

Bhutan

263

70

56

Cambodia

208

83

24

China

5 920

1 920

1 260

Cyprus

59

24

Georgia

139

68

32

India

2 638

660

Indonesia

2 147

402

40

Japan

718

136

114

Kazakhstan

163

62

27

Korea (Democratic People's Rep.)

Korea (Republic)

52

26

19

Kyrgyzstan

163

99

55

Laos

233

63

42

Malaysia

230

123

Mongolia

56

22

Myanmar (Burma)

877

130

Nepal

727

158

147

Pakistan

210

130

130

Philippines

47

20

18

Sri Lanka

11

8

7

Taiwan, China

103

14

12

Tajikistan

527

>264

264

Thailand

56

19

18

Turkey

413

216

122

Turkmenistan

24

5

2

Uzbekistan

88

27

15

Vietnam

300

100

80

Total Asia

16 443

>4 875

Albania

40

15

6

Austria

75

>56

56

Belarus

7

3

2

Belgium

1

N

N

Bosnia-Herzogovina

69

24

19

Bulgaria

26

15

12

Croatia

10

9

8

Czech Republic

12

4

Denmark

N

N

N

Estonia

2

N

N

Faroe Islands

1

N

N

Finland

47

>20

20

FYR Macedonia

9

6

France

200

72

70

Germany

120

26

20

Greece

80

15

12

Hungary

7

5

Iceland

184

64

40

Ireland

1

1

1

Italy

340

105

65

Latvia

7

6

5

Lithuania

5

3

2

Luxembourg

N

N

N

Moldova

2

1

1

Netherlands

1

N

N

Norway

600

200

180

Poland

23

14

7

Portugal

33

25

20

Romania

56

36

17

Russian Federation

2 800

1 670

852

Serbia, Montenegro

68

>27

27

Slovakia

10

>7

6

Slovenia

13

9

8

Spain

138

70

41

Sweden

176

130

90

Switzerland

144

41

35

Ukraine

45

24

19

United Kingdom

40

3

1

Total Europe

5 392

>2 706

Iran (Islamic Rep.)

368

88

48

Iraq

225

90

67

Israel

88

<35

Jordan

N

N

N

Lebanon

2

1

Syria (Arab Rep.)

5

4

4

Total Middle East

688

<218

Australia

264

>30

30

Fiji

3

1

French Polynesia

N

N

N

New Caledonia

New Zealand

152

77

40

Palau

Papua New Guinea

175

123

37

Solomon Islands

2

>1

Western Samoa