Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Hydro Power Plants Are Environment And People Friendly

By Harold Hayes


Energy is needed by everyone to function or operate. There are many sources of energy. Energy is obtained from wind, tides, hydrogen, sun rays etc. As sun rays reach almost all part of earth, this energy is used quite often by many people after hydroelectricity. Dallas solar company provides all sorts of services with regard to electricity generation from sun rays.

Electricity is required by every household and production units. Electric current is required to run fans, lights, televisions, air conditioners etc. In factories, it is used to run machinate. In most countries hydroelectric projects are used. In this, water is collected by building dams and then this water is used to turn turbines, which generate electricity.

Places which receive good rainfall, the soil will be fertile and crops could be grown very well. But in areas where rainfall is scarce manmade dams are very helpful. Water could be released for irrigation, on demand by farmers. Another plus point of dams are that, it avoids floods.

When there is continuous rainfall for days, the rivers will be flowing with much water and it can even exceed the banks. When water exceeds the banks, it may affect the people living near banks. Water can enter into roads and houses. The whole area will be flooded by this. This could be avoided by building reservoir, as it stores huge quantities of water.

This process produces much radioactive wastes. Disposing this waste is another difficult and costly process. Technology has to be obtained from developed countries to dispose it in a proper way. The emissions released while generating electricity does not affect the environment. The maintenance cost of reactors is more.

Governments of some countries are taking responsibility for the deaths. Compensations are paid to workers and people who are killed electrocuted. In order to reduce the risks of death while working in high voltage towers, government is planning to introduce drones to assist with the work. People who are not satisfied with the compensations can even approach court. Farmers get compensation for their electrocuted animals also.

This happens most often after heavy rainfall and storm. Due to this, trees fall on top of electric lines and electric lines come down to ground. People unknowingly come in contact with those lines and gets electrocuted. If there was automatic disconnection of electricity when an electric line breaks, these deaths could be avoided.

Payment has to be made for the electricity consumed. Calculations are based on number of electric units consumed. There will be slab system. There may be different units allotted to different slabs and the rates also vary. Payments may be made at local electricity office or paid through online. Now a new system is going to be introduced, which is called prepaid system.

The main advantage of this is, initial investment is low and installation is relatively easy. As it needs only less space, only small number of family needs to be evacuated from the area. Also the operation of a diesel plant is easy compared to other sources of electricity. As oil price is more, the energy produced will cost more. In result people need to pay more for energy produced from diesel and petrol plants.




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