“…The Covid-19 pandemic has also highlighted hydropower's resilience and critical role in delivering clean, flexible, reliable, and affordable energy, especially in times of crisis, because the plant operations have been less affected due to the degree of automation with modern Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) facilities and intelligent system. [6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Generally, the grid controls and dispatches the electricity generation demand to hydropower stations ahead of days. However, a hydropower station's power generation is also affected by many dynamic factors, such as river/reservoir inflows, seasonality, abrupt needs, and gross industrial production, the self-usage of electricity, price, and so forth.…”