Abstract
Power can be generated from groundwater by pumping water from one or more bores and passing this discharge to a hydro power station located at an elevation below the bore water level. Given a suitable hydrogeological environment, a small groundwater power system should be more robust against dry periods than a stream-based scheme of the same size. This is relevant, for example, for isolated islands where no single stream may provide a sufficiently large and consistent discharge for normal hydropower generation. Large groundwater power schemes may be possible in particular topographic and geological configurations in high-rainfall environments. The aquifer here plays the role of a storage lake so land inundation can be avoided. Potential groundwater power sites will have to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis using numerical models, but simple expressions for preliminary power estimates can be derived for situations where the Dupuit approximation applies.
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