HERI – Hydropower in Europe Research & Innovation
Welcome to the Hydropower in Europe Research & Innovation (HERI) tool. The purpose of HERI is to provide the hydropower industry with information regarding past, present and future R&I actions and opportunities. Select from the image below to navigate through the research actions, organisations or funding. Add details of your own research actions and organisation for others to see.
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FIThydro: Fishfriendly Innovative Technologies for Hydropower
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Sustainable energy sources like hydropower plants (HPPs) generate vast energy with minimal environmental impact. By utilising this clean energy solution, it is possible to effectively meet our energy demands without...
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
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The Technical University of Munich (TUM) ranks among Europe’s most outstanding universities in research and innovation – an achievement powered by its distinctive character as an entrepreneurial university. The university...
Investigation of the migration behavior of fish using PIT tag technology
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PIT tags are passive transmitters used for the electronic marking of fish. When marked fish swim past an antenna installed in a water body or a fish migration aid, they...
Trinity College Dublin
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Civil Engineering has been taught at Trinity College Dublin since 1841, and since then has played a prominent role in the development of civil engineering as an academic subject. We...
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet - NTNU
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NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, is a university with a main profile in science and technology. With more than 40 000 students and 7 100 employees, it...
Waterjade: Waterjade: the global platform to predict water resources
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Water scarcity from environmental changes is taking its toll on numerous sectors, particularly the energy sector. The absence of effective methods to predict the quantities of water produced from snow...
SuREmMa+: SuREmMa+ - Integrative economic and environmental assessment of measures for mitigating hydropeaking - hydraulic / morphological analysis
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The SuREmMa project developed a tool for assessing the ecological impact of man-made runoff fluctuations in the SuREmMa + project to: a) record the actual hydro-morphological status in impacted rivers,...
Turbulent: A revolutionary HYDRO POWER technology to sustainably exploit super-low-head water steps
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Energy utilities, investors and project developers are actively looking for decentralized solutions that combine sustainability with stable and risk-free energy production at low cost. Since wind and solar are highly...
UBITECH ENERGY
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UBITECH ENERGY was founded by a blend of experienced ICT Consultants and Energy Research Innovators, with a long track record in the identification, design, development and commercialization of research and...
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
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CDIF is a R&D center within the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). The research activities are developed by a group of Ph.Ds in industrial engineering, with over 30 years of...
Hydrolowhead: PROFITABLE LOW HEAD HYROPOWER
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Water is one of the basic and essential human needs for almost all economic activities. The water management sector is facing global challenges that require multi-sector solutions. Small hydro energy...
AGUAS DE VALENCIA, S.A.
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Aguas de Valencia is a benchmark in water management. Its work and line of development, always hand in hand with innovation and the latest technologies, have marked a before and...
CAGIX: An online software platform for effectively matching investors with start-ups, focused on boosting the cleantech sector
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CAGIX is a software company, with long-term experience in the start-ups, incubation and investment industry, which has developed an online incubation platform that covers investment preparation, incubator operations and portfolio...
ÖkoResch: ÖkoResch: Achievement of good ecological potential in high alpine residual water sections and flow-affected waters
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The EU Water Framework Directive (EU-WFD) has established specific environmental objectives for water bodies that are threatened by pollution.This research project aims to provide the foundation for defining Good Ecological...
Deep River AS
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Deep River AS is active in research and development related to power plants for producing electricity from rivers, waterfalls and ocean currents. Their products are based on container modules developed...
SHYDRO-ALP: Quantifying ecological effects of small hydropower in Alpine stream ecosystems
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In Europe, hydropower is the largest renewable energy resource accounting for 16% of total production, most of which is concentrated in the Alpine region. However, this renewable energy comes at...
ReHydro: Demonstration of Sustainable Hydropower Refurbishment
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The main objective of ReHydro is to demonstrate how European hydropower can be refurbished and modernized to be fit for a leading role in the future power system respecting sustainability...
SMART HYDRO POWER GMBH
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We are a multi-cultural team working in a German-based company. We are focused on developing and implementing affordable renewable energy projects that enhance productivity and improve people’s living standards. Smart...
LIFE TURBINES: Empowering smart renewable cities through hydropower technology in urban drinking water supply systems
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LIFE TURBINES aims to boost the development of Smart Cities and promote decarbonisation of drinking water supply in order to achieve the European Union's 2050 target, the Green Deal and...
XFLEX: XFLEX HYDRO
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The ultimate objective of the XFLEX project is to increase hydropower potential in terms of plant efficiency, availability and provision of flexibility services to the Electric Power System (EPS). The...
H-HOPE: Hidden Hydro Oscillating Power for Europe
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Climate change has showcased the need for renewable energy sources as well as reduced emissions and consumption. However, new technology is required to satisfy this need. Hydro energy systems are...
GIOUMPITEK MELETI SCHEDIASMOS YLOPOIISI KAI POLISI ERGON PLIROFORIKIS ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHYNI
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UBITECH has been established in Athens, Greece back in 2005, concentrated in the European market and acquiring several EC and national grants for novel R&D initiatives. UBITECH has extended its...
International Hydropower Association
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The International Hydropower Association (IHA) is a non-profit membership organisation and the global voice for sustainable hydropower. As an association, we believe that all new hydropower projects should be developed...
HYDROGO: Energy from water in motion: efficient, customisable off-grid hydro-electricity for rural areas with stream access
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HYDROGO, our mobile, small, easy- and fast-to-install hydropower solution, is designed to alleviate the electricity needs of individuals or communities by producing electricity from river currents and waterfalls, efficiently, and...
VERBUND Hydro Power GmbH
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VERBUND is Austria's leading energy company and one of the largest electricity producers from hydropower in Europe. Our research promotes the understanding of the interactions and influences of hydropower use...
NORCE NORWEGIAN RESEARCH CENTRE AS
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NORCE is an independent research institute that conducts research for both public and private sectors, to facilitate informed and sustainable choices for the future. We deliver research and innovation in...
EUROFLOW: A EUROpean training and research network for environmental FLOW management in river basins
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The regulation of river flows is one of the biggest stressors affecting river ecosystems across the world. In many westernised countries, major legislative efforts are therefore underpinning the development of...
SERPA. Dam Safety Research. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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SERPA is a research group integrated within the Department of Civil Engineering: Hydraulics, Energy, and Environment at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. SERPA aims to deepen understanding of key aspects...
EolPower Investments Srl
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Founded in 2011 by research group ADAG - Aircaft Design & Aeroflight Dynamics Group - of the Department of Industrial Engineering - Aerospace division (DII, University of Naples “Federico II”),...
Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico - RSE SpA
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RSE carries out analysis, studies and research activities, applied to the energy sector as a whole. The big challenges and innovations stemming from advancements in the sustainable generation, distribution and...
Eurac Research (Accademia Europea di Bolzano)
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Our research addresses the greatest challenges of the future: keeping societies healthy, fostering intact environments, promoting sustainable energy and developing well-functioning political and social systems. Seeking answers through interaction between...
TURBULENT
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Turbulent aims to provide even the most remote communities of the world with reliable and affordable energy. We’ve developed a special kind of Vortex Turbine that generates low cost electricity,...
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS - CERTH
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The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTY) was fοunded in March 2000, it is a legal entity governed by private law with non-profit status,...
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL
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EPFL is Europe’s most cosmopolitan technical university. It welcomes students, professors and collaborators of more than 120 nationalities. EPFL has both a Swiss and international vocation and focuses on three...
HES SO Valais
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Hydro Alps is an applied research and development laboratory specializing in improving the monitoring and production of Alpine high-pressure and run-of-river power plants.Tecnoturbines
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Tecnoturbines develops hydraulic turbines specially designed to generate electricity under variable hydraulic conditions from water distribution networks, hydro power plants and industries. Our mission is to promote progress by reducing...
UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA
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The Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics focuses on the following research areas: biology and ecology, chemistry (environmental, analytical and for the conservation of cultural heritage), environmental engineering, computer...
EUREC - The Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centers
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EUREC is the voice of renewable energy research in Europe, representing European Research Centres active in renewable energy. The purpose of the association is to promote and support the development...
RIVER-POWER: Water flow kinetics energy exploitation for mini/micro hydropower plants.
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RIVER-POWER is a disruptive technology able to efficiently convert the water flow kinetics energy in electricity thanks to a turbine innovative design derived from the wind power technology. The new...
Di-Hydro: DIGITAL MAINTENANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE AND FLEXIBLE OPERATION OF HYDROPOWER PLANT
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Di-Hydro will develop practical solutions, applicable to HP plants and clusters across the EU, regardless of their previous digitization level, by combining innovative sensor technology and digital adaption for energy...
EDF Hydro - EDF R&D
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EDF (Electricite de France) is one of the largest power Utility in Europe. As regard to Hydropower, it owns and operates a fleet of more than 20,000 MW Hydro domestic...
ALPHEUS: Augmenting grid stability through Low-head Pumped Hydro Energy Utilization & Storage
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With a growing share of intermittent renewable energy sources grid stability can be maintained, and flexibility enhanced, by applying pumped hydropower energy storage. ALPHEUS will improve reversible pump/turbine (RPT) technology...
European Renewable Energies Federation
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EREF is the European federation of national renewable energy associations from across EU Member States, representing all renewable energy sectors. Since nealry 25 years, the Federation has been defending the...
Coventry University
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The Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) is driving innovative, transdisciplinary research on the understanding and development of resilient food and water systems internationally. Through its focus on food...
HyKinetics: An innovative axial turbine for conversion of hydro-kinetics energy to electricity in rivers and canals
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Improving the efficiency of technologies exploiting renewable sources of energy is vital for the future of the planet. To this end, the EU-funded HyKinetics project aims to test an innovative...
European Association for Storage of Energy
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The European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) is the leading member-supported association representing organisations active across the entire energy storage value chain. EASE supports the deployment of energy storage...
University of East Anglia
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School of Environmental Sciences We are internationally recognised for our holistic and interdisciplinary approach to research, integrating physical, chemical, biological and social sciences to understand the Earth, its life and...
RIBES: RIver flow regulation, fish BEhaviour and Status
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The loss of biodiversity and degradation of aquatic habitats, largely caused by human actions, has led to a new resolution calling for ecosystem restoration. Moreover, the EU has raised the...
ETIP Hydropower: ETIP Hydropower Europe
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Building from this extensive programme of consultation, the Hydropower Europe Forum (https://hydropower-europe.eu/) has developed from 2018 to 2022 a Research and Innovation Agenda (RIA) as well as a Strategic Industry...
KEEPFISH: Knowledge Exchange for Efficient Passage of Fishes in the Southern Hemisphere
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The decline of freshwater fish biodiversity is proceeding at an alarming and persistent rate. Given that most fish must undertake some form of migration in order to complete their life-cycle,...
AFC4Hydro: Active Flow Control system FOR improving HYDRaulic turbine performances at off-design Operation
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The overall objective of the AFC4Hydro research project is to design, implement and validate in full-scale water turbine an active flow control system that permit to increase efficiency and reduce...
AEA - Albania Energy Association
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Support the future of renewable energy, innovation, decarbonization, and the energy transition. With a team of energy consultants, engineers, and experts, we support our members and different companies or investors...
WATEC: Development of a novel wave tidal energy converter (WATEC) to lower renewable electricity generation costs
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WATEC project deals with the design, fabrication, ""on-field"" testing and commercialization of an innovative hydro-turbine able to convert into electricity the kinetic and potential energy of waves and the kinetic...
Politecnico di Torino
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Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering The Department of Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI) is the reference structure of Politecnico di Torino in the cultural areas...
AMBER: Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers
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AMBER joined together 20 European partners including academics, conservation foundations (WWF, World Fish Migration Foundation), energy providers (EDF, Sydkraft Hydropower) and policy advisors (European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC)). The...
Swansea University
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CSAR CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE AQUATIC RESEARCH CSAR operates from state-of-the-art, controlled environment facilities in Swansea University's department of Biosciences. CSAR conducts research and technological development, and provides training and advice...
iAMP-Hydro: intelligent Asset Management Platform for HYDROpower operation & maintenance
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iAMP-Hydro is a collaborative research effort of 10 parties coming from a wide field of academia and industry. Its target is to build digital solutions that will improve the efficiency,...
RELY: Reliable reinforcement learning for sustainable energy systems
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Due to the increasing complexity, the growing number of players in the energy market and the resulting need for increased flexibility, machine learning algorithms will play a significant role in...
EOMAP GmbH & Co.KG
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EOMAP is the world leading company for optical remote sensing of marine and freshwater aquatic environments. EOMAP has supported both industry and governments to successfully complete hundreds of projects requiring...
CNR Compagnie Nationale du Rhône
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Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) is France’s leading producer of 100% renewable electricity with a total installed capacity of 4GW (3.1GW of hydro, 735MW of wind and 135MW of solar)....
Hydro4U: Hydropower For You - Sustainable small-scale hydropower in Central Asia
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Small-scale hydropower is not extensively exploited in Central Asia despite considerable potential to satisfy unmet electricity demand and chart a new way forward in cooperative cross-sectoral management of shared waters....
CDL-MERI: CDL-MERI: Christian Doppler Laboratory for Meta Ecosystem Dynamics in Riverine Landscapes
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To better understand the dynamic processes in the Danube, the meta-ecosystem approach combines biological processes, human activities, and ecosystem services across different spatial and temporal scales. For instance, the migratory...
Assessment of habitat enhancement measures for the protection of fish populations
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Measures to protect fish populations in waters influenced by hydroelectric power plants have so far focused almost exclusively on longitudinal connectivity for fish. In particular, short-distance migrators are likely to...
SMART Slowflow: Kinetic Micro Hydro System for electrification of rural areas
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Smart Hydro Power developed and patented a 100 % renewable energy-based, reliable and easy to be-installed hydro-kinetics micro hydropower solution that reaches unparalleled levelised cost of electricity (EUR 20 per...
EcoAdvance: EcoAdvance: Assessing and Consolidating Recent Advances in Freshwater Ecosystem Restoration
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The ultimate goal of the EcoAdvance project is to encourage more widespread and successful freshwater ecosystem restoration projects across Europe. We aim to achieve this by identifying factors most likely...
ECO-DRILLING: Environmentally efficient full profile drilling solution
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The overall vision of the ECO-DRILLING project is to prototype, pilot, and commercialise our cost-effective and environmentally friendly full profile directional drilling technology for the global hydropower sector. ECO-DRILLING is...
Key stimuli for the detection of fish bypasses
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The research project has been addressing a series of open questions regarding the triggering of fish migrations and the orientation of fish in water bodies. As part of the project,...
HYDROPOWER-EUROPE
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The HYDROPOWER-EUROPE project aimed to support sectorial fora by bringing together stakeholders of the hydropower sector in a forum and providing a unique opportunity to bring together the hydropower community...
Pliosaur Energy Ltd
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Pliosaur Energy is an SME that aspires to transform the marine renewable energy market through the introduction of our truly ground breaking and patented technology to convert both wave and...
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
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Delft University of Technology is the oldest, largest and most comprehensive university of technology in The Netherlands. With over 20,000 students and 2,500 scientists (including 400 full professors), it is...
CliRSnow: Statistically combine climate models with remote sensing to provide high-resolution snow projections for the near and distant future.
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The cryosphere in the European Alps is expected to change substantially with global warming. Snow in the Alps impacts the local communities but also affects the quantity and seasonality of...
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC)
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The National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC), founded in 1946, is a public research institute devoted to Science, Technology and Innovation in Civil Engineering and related fields. It has a...
AGISTIN: Advanced Grid Interfaces for innovative STorage INtegration
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Energy storage is in high demand. The decarbonisation of industry through electrification, the growth of renewables as well as the need to ensure grid stability are major incentives to develop...
University of Padova
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The research Group on Turbomachinery and Energy System is deeply involved in research activities dealing with fluid machines and in particular with hydropower. The group has also a research infrastructure...
Norhard AS
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Established in 2006 as Norwegian Hard Rock Drilling, by Statkraft, Lyse, Skagerak and Agder Energi, with financial support from NVE.​​ Norhard was granted MNOK 19 in EU funding in 2018...
HYPOS: HYdro-POwer-Suite
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Hydropower as the world’s largest source of renewable energy still has a high unused potential to be explored in times of a changing global energy policy. The economic and ecological...
MobyGIS s.r.l.
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The company MobyGIS S.r.l. operates in the hydro-meteorological sector with specialization on water resources monitoring and forecasting. Through the Waterjade® brand, MobyGIS offers software solutions for water monitoring and water...
Lost-Biodiv: Predicting changes in species interactions following species loss in hydroelectric reservoir islands
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Studying space interactions in hydroelectric dam ecosystems The rising need for energy led to the proliferation of hydroelectric dams worldwide. However, damming is associated with some negative impacts on the...
BINGO: Bringing INnovation to onGOing water management – A better future under climate change
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Climate Change. Water scarcity. Floods. Droughts. Heavy rains. These words have increasingly punctuated our current dialogue in Europe – socially, academically, and politically. There are plenty of long-term concepts on...
HydroFlex: Increasing the value of Hydropower through increased Flexibilty
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HydroFlex aims to increase the value of hydro power through increased Flexibility. The commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has been...
Rebecchi Group
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Our mission is to provide solutions for industry and companies to help them face the complex and constantly changing challenges of the future. Technological and scientific development doesn’t follow a...
University of Leeds
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SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY River Basin Processes and Management We provide international leadership in understanding and managing environmental processes and feedbacks that control and link water, sediment, solute and biotic dynamics...
vgbe energy e.V.
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vgbe energy e.V. is the technical association of energy plant operators. Our members are companies that operate power, heat and cooling, energy storage and sector coupling plants worldwide. vgbe energy...
HYPOSO: Hydropower solutions for developing and emerging countries
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The HYPOSO Project aims at supporting the European hydropower industry while at the same time fostering a sustainable development in selected target countries in Africa and Latin America. One of...
Università degli Studi di Trento
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Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering The research activity focuses on fundamental areas of engineering, design and applied sciences , such as environmental protection, landscape, architecture, renewable natural resources,...
OKOLOGIAI KUTATOKOZPONT (Centre for Ecological Research)
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Aquatic Ecology, Wetland Ecology research groupD-HYDROFLEX: Digital solutions for improving the sustainability performance and FLEXibility potential of HYDROpower assets
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The European energy system is undergoing a significant transformation: decarbonization, security of supply, deployment of renewables and their integration into the market, generating significant opportunities and challenges for energy stakeholders....
DAFNE: Use of a Decision-Analytic Framework to explore the water-energy-food NExus in complex and trans-boundary water resources systems of fast growing developing countries.
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Global trends in population growth and rising economic prosperity will increase the demand for energy, food and water, with more severe impact in fast-growing economies, such as in several African...
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