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Hydropower plants play a major role in the global energy sector, generating up to 17% of all energy generated. Despite this, the spread of small hydropower is not as extensive, although it has an extremely large potential and is a competitive renewable energy source, as small hydropower plants have high efficiencies of up to 80%. The implementation of such energy complexes requires a preliminary assessment of their efficiency, for which atlases and data from existing GIS systems are most often used, but they may not have information on the potential of small rivers and streams, and do not allow for seasonal changes in the water landscape, which is particularly pronounced in mountainous terrain. Therefore, this paper proposes to examine the process of developing a small generating station suitable for use on small streams in mountainous terrain, which can be used as a means to collect data on the energy production profile of small mountain streams, which will help to establish seasonal dependencies and balance the energy system, achieving sustainable energy production through the involvement of other generation sources.
Onishchenko et al. (Mon,) studied this question.