Importance of Hydroelectric Power Plants In Terms of Environmental Policy

Although indispensable benefits of energy in our life, production, transmission and consumption of the energy also leads to extended environmental pollution during these process. Parallel to population growth and industrial developments, immense energy production and conversion system affect ecological balance beyond our borders. Therefore, environmental issues are international as well as they are national. In this context, advantage and disadvantage of hydroelectric plants has been mentioned in this work and the importance of environmental policies has been emphasized. Basically, sustainability and reliability issues of hydroelectric power plants (HPP) which has became a part of energy production from renewable natural source of water have been examined in the context of environmental policies.