What are the benefits of having the system in Malaysia?

One of the benefits of the hydroelectric system is that when the dam is completed it can
generate electricity at constant rate.
The other benefit is water from the hydroelectric power plant free from contamination
and can be used to irrigation purpose.
This system also able to control the amount of energy produced. When the energy
demand is high control get can be open and the energy is low control get can be shut.
This show the effectiveness hydroelectric system in terms of using water.
When in use, electricity produced by hydroelectric systems does not produce green house
gases. They do not pollute the atmosphere.
The lake that forms behind the dam can be used for water sports and leisure / pleasure
activities. Often large dams become tourist attractions in their own right.

What are the economics and environment impacts of the renewable energy to the electricity
consumer?
Dams consistently cost more and take longer to build than projected. In general, the
larger a hydro project is, the larger its construction cost overrun in percentage terms.
In too many cases, the burden of uneconomic dams is shouldered by a nation's citizens,
while the project builders walk away with a tidy profit and another project to add to their
portfolio. Given that most of the world's large dams are now being built in the world's
poorest nations, this is a burden they can ill afford.
Another issue is that large dams are often the largest energy development in many poor
countries, which can lead to an unbalanced energy supply. While countries generally get
richer as they increase their use of modern energy, the trend goes the other way for
dependency on hydroelectricity.
The dam wall itself blocks fish migrations, which in some cases and with some species
completely separate spawning habitats from rearing habitats. The dam also traps
sediments, which are critical for maintaining physical processes and habitats downstream
of the dam.
Another significant and obvious impact is the transformation upstream of the dam from a
free-flowing river ecosystem to an artificial slack-water reservoir habitat. Changes in
temperature, chemical composition, dissolved oxygen levels and the physical properties
of a reservoir are often not suitable to the aquatic plants and animals that evolved with a
given river system.
The alteration of a river's flow and sediment transport downstream of a dam often causes
the greatest sustained environmental impacts. Life in and around a river evolves and is
conditioned on the timing and quantities of river flow. Disrupted and altered water flows
can be as severe as completely de-watering river reaches and the life they contain. Yet
even subtle changes in the quantity and timing of water flows impact aquatic and riparian
life, which can unravel the ecological web of a river system.
A dam also holds back sediments that would naturally replenish downstream ecosystems.
When a river is deprived of its sediment load, it seeks to recapture it by eroding the
downstream river bed and banks. Riverbeds downstream of dams are typically eroded by
several meters within the decade of first closing a dam; the damage can extend for tens or
even hundreds of kilometers below a dam.
Riverbed deepening will also lower groundwater tables along a river, lowering the water
table accessible to plant roots. Altering the riverbed also reduces habitat for fish that
spawn in river bottoms, and for invertebrates.













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