| As an emerging market, Asia is one of the regions in the world that has ambitious plans to continue the development of large-scale hydropower projects. China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal and Vietnam, among other countries in up-and-coming Asia, have extensive plans to expand their hydropower resources, and all intend to use large-scale hydropower to achieve their goals. All countries also develop small hydropower plants.
With a vast territory and a host of rivers, China has the largest hydropower resources of the world. Hydropower has a share of 17 % in power generation in China. The share of hydropower in China’s generation capacity will steadily rise to 27 % by 2005.
India’s hydropower potential ranks fifth in the world. Hydropower accounts for one-quarter of India’s generated power and 27 % of the installed generating capacity. The latter is planned to increase to 40 %. So far, only 17 % of the net exploitable potential and 30 % of the economically viable potential have been harnessed.
Voith Siemens Hydro has installed so far around 500 units with a total output of 15,000 GW in Asia.
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