Mini & Micro Hydropower Site Assessment

A site assessment is the go/no-go filter of a hydropower project. It stops money being spent on designing a plant for a site with too little dry-season water, too little head, unstable ground, no load to serve, or an environmental or legal blocker — and it ranks competing sites so the most promising one is developed first.

The work combines a desk study — catchment area, rainfall records, maps, geology, distance to the grid, land status and existing water uses such as irrigation and drinking water — with a walkover of the intake, waterway route, forebay, powerhouse site and line routes. First head and flow measurements give a first power estimate, and a demand survey of households, institutions and productive users shows whether there is a load worth serving. Environmental screening covers the diverted reach of the river and the flow that must remain in it.

• Desk study: catchment, rainfall, maps, grid and land status
• Walkover of intake, waterway, powerhouse and line routes
• First head and spot-flow measurements; power estimate
• Demand, access and environmental screening
• Ranked sites with a clear proceed / do-not-proceed recommendation

What you receive: a site assessment report with a layout sketch, estimated head, flow and power, a demand estimate, the main risks, and a clear recommendation — reject the site, revisit it in the dry season, or proceed to survey and feasibility work.

• Preliminary Site Survey →
• Pre and Full Feasibility Study →
• Detailed Engineering Design (DED) & Bill of Quantity (BoQ) →
• Financial Analysis →
• All 16 Services →