> Is it? Because most of Wales is mountainous It's hard to me to say right now mountainousness of these two countries compare (but looking at the map, looks li

> Is it? Because most of Wales is mountainous It's hard to me to say right now mountainousness of these two countries compare (but looking at the map, looks like Scotland has more and higher mountains https://maps-for-free.com/ https://maps-for-free.com/). But Wales population density is three times as low as in Wales. So even if mountain availability would be the same (which I claim it is not), then hydro power capacity is three times lower in Wales. > Still confused about why the population distribution is important Distribution is not important, density is. > per-capita is ultimately meaningless unless both declare independence and sever that grid connection If it was meaningless, we would not discuss the BBC article in the first place. > it'd be damn hard to find one that has geography that prevents any hydro capacity Well, technically one can build hydro power plant virtually everywhere where there are rivers, but in many places (with only few mountains) building hydro power plants is prohibitively expensive and leads to too much land wasted for water storage.