What is Selection criteria for site for hydro power plant?

Answer 1

While selecting a suitable site for a hydro-electric power plant, if a good system of natural storage-lakes at high altitudes and with large catchment areas can be located, the plant will be comparatively economical.

Anyhow the essential characteristics of a good site are:

• large catchment area,
• high average rain fall and
• a favorable place for constructing the storage or reservoir.
• The land should be cheap in cost and rocky in order to withstand the weight of large building and heavy machinery.
• There should be possibility of providing adequate transportation facilities so that the necessary equipment and machinery could be easily transported.