With the three relevant Federal agencies working together to remove barriers to development on federally owned facilities, hydroelectric developers can be reasonably confident that their investments in planning will eventually bear fruit in new hydropowergeneration, and not be blocked at the last minute by unexpected red tape.
China is already investing billions of dollars to substitute hydropower (which counts as a renewable energy source) for coal and gas in electricity generation.
China is of course planning to employ other sources, like wind power, hydropower and nuclear, but the sooty black rock is expected to represent as much power generation as all those others combined.
However, one thing to keep in mind about this bonanza of renewable energy information: Hydropower is still the major source of renewable electricity (83.8 percent of renewable generation and about 16 percent of total generation in 2009).