我省地处江、淮、黄、海四大流域,水能蕴藏量218.8万千瓦,可开发装机容量98.3万千瓦(未计入黄河干流及引丹资源)。主要分布在京广路以西及信阳地区的南部。建国前,我省小水电建设几乎还是一片空白,只有西峡县一处48千瓦的小水电站。45年后的今天,全省小水电装机已达24.6万千瓦,取得了突飞猛进 The province is located in the four river basins, Huai, Huang, Hai Basin, water reserves of 2,188,000 kilowatts, can be installed capacity of 983,000 kilowatts (not included in the Yellow River and the source of Dan). Mainly distributed in the west of Beijing Guang Road and Xinyang area in the south. Before the founding of New China, the construction of small hydropower in our province was almost a blank area, only a 48 kilowatts small hydropower station in Xixia County. Today 45 years later, the installed capacity of small hydropower in the province has reached 246,000 kilowatts, making rapid progress