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How widely is hydroelectricity used?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

About 19% of entire world power generation, primarily in Canada, the U.S., Europe, and China. Fossil fuels are cheap and easy, and are therefore used in most of the world, which is barely developed, or just developing, like India and mainland China.

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