Originally posted by KazetNagorra
For hydro power you need that rain to fall down from something.
yes, mountains and/or relatively high hills/slopes. Fortunately, excluding countries consisting of desert, most countries in the world have at least one with some real potential for hydro power.
Most places are not suitable for building big hydroelectric dams but one thing people usually don't appreciate is that you don't necessarily need big dams for very cost effective hydro power because you can have what is called "run-off-the-river" hydro power which, at the cost of sacrificing energy storage, requires either extremely small dams or no dams at all! With the main disadvantage of sacrificing energy storage, this has several big advantages (over hydro power with big dams ) mainly being lower costs of construction and generally lower environmental impact (no need to flood vast areas of forest, farms, etc ).
I have the suspicion that, thanks to people's general lack of knowledge/awareness and appreciation of this, run-off-the-river hydro power is currently a massively under-exploited source of potentially relatively cheap electric power.