Hydroelectricity in Hungary

Hydroelectricity is not prevalent in Hungary due to unsuitable geographical conditions and civil resentment. The country's capacity of hydroelectricity was 57 MWs in 2015.[1]

List of Hungarian hydroelectric dams
Tiszalök Dam
  • Tisza Dam, Kisköre - 28 MW
  • Tiszalök Dam - 12,9 MW
  • Békásszentandrás Dam - 2 MW
  • Ikervár Dam
  • Gibárt Dam
  • Kesznyéten Dam
  • Kenyer Dam
  • Körmend Dam

Cancelled and future projects

Hungary's greatest hydroelectric project was the Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams. The complex was built together with Czechoslovakia, but cancelled after the fall of Communism in Hungary. Slovakia finished the modified version of the project, unilaterally. The ICJ ruled in the legal dispute between the two countries, but the practical problems arising from the functioning of the dam are still unsettled.[2]

Due the environmental concerns of the Hungarian society, no major hydroelectric projects are supported by the government. However, plans exist to create new dams on the Danube to make the river more suitable for navigation.[3]

References
  1. "IRENA REsource". resourceirena.irena.org.
  2. "1000 balatonnyi víz jogtalan elterelése". Greenfo.
  3. Gergely, Nyilas (June 14, 2013). "Most jól jött volna Bős-Nagymaros". index.hu.


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