Hydropower plant - run-of-river (hydropower plant construction - run-of-river)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.8. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a hydropower plant, run-of-river. The lifetime of the structural part is assumed to be 80 years, while for the remaining parts the lifetime is 40 years. Run-of-river power plants are hydro power plants without important reservoirs. Depending on the net head of the power plant, high-pressure, medium-pressure and low-pressure systems can be distinguished. Low-pressure power plants including river power stations and canal power plants are very common; therefore these two types of run-of-river power stations are covered in the dataset. The technology used in the dataset has an overall efficiency of 82%. The process includes all materials necessary to construct it, electricity and water consumption during manufacturing and decommission. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.