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Yasmina Abdelilah

May 21, 2026

7:47
Now maybe you could just tell me about if that creates any problems and, and what solutions are there to a hydropower plant that may be decades old?
7:58
So actually, hydropower plants have a long technical lifetime.
8:03
Um, dams can last up to a hundred years, and the electromechanical equipment can be a few decades old.
8:10
And, and that's a good thing.
8:12
They're designed to run a long time.
8:14
And so because they're designed to run a long time, and they do run a long time, you know, the average age of the fleet right now is about thirty-one years old, which is higher than other renewable, uh, technologies.
8:26
Uh, if you unpack that a little bit though, you'll see that that really masks two very different populations in terms of the age of the fleet.
10:21
What is the potential there and, and what countries or regions are targeting it?

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