SCIENCE
ENERGY ENERGY RESOURCES
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23%
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13%
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33%
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Pakistan, installed hydropower generation capacity is around 10, 000 megawatts, accounting for 15% of total hydro potential of 60, 000MW.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hydropower, or hydroelectric power, is one of the oldest and largest sources of renewable energy, which uses the natural flow of moving water to generate electricity. Hydropower currently accounts for 31.5% of total U.S. renewable electricity generation and about 6.3% of total U.S. electricity generation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pakistan is endowed with hydropower resources of about 60000 MW, allmost all of which lie in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, Punjab and Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJ&K).
Detailed explanation-4: -Hydro power, the second-most important renewable nationwide (291 TWh), is the biggest source of electricity in Washington (66.1 percent) and generates more than half the power in Idaho (58.7 percent), Vermont (57.8 percent), Oregon (51.9 percent), and South Dakota (50.5 percent).