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A hydroelectric plant is a factory that produces electricity using water as the driving force for the turbines that in turn drive generators running.

Hydropower plants produce about a quarter of the electricity consumed in the world. Hydro-Québec, with its 59 hydroelectric and access to abundant water reserves, produces almost all of its electricity - 98% in 2008 - from the water, which helps to reduce greenhouse gas greenhouse.

Water rushes into the penstock into the turbine. The force of the moving water rotates the turbine which in turn drives the rotor of the generator and generates the movement back and forth of the electrons.

Central reservoir

Robert-Bourassa, an underground plant tank

Carillon, 
a run water

An installed near a dam or surface or underground, which has a height of sizeable fall plant; due to its ability to modulate the supply of water from the storage tank, this type of plant has the flexibility increased to meet fluctuations in demand for electricity.

A head taller than the Eiffel Tower!

The center of Sainte-Marguerite-3 has a drop height of 330 meters. It is six meters higher than the Eiffel Tower, including its antenna.

Run-of-water

A power plant by a river and with virtually no reserves. Its drop height is usually low, so its power varies depending on the flow of the water.