Table 1. Data on two Swedish hydroelectric power systems
System
Annual average energy production (GWh)
Land appropriation (km2)
Hornso
10
0.15
Lulealven
13,600
328
Horns is a run-of-river plant located in southern Sweden, whereas Lulelven is the most extensively exploited river, containing multi-annual reservoirs as well as river impoundments and located between the mountains and the Baltic Sea in northernmost Sweden
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