ReHydro: Demonstration of Sustainable Hydropower Refurbishment
Start Date
2024End Date
2028Description
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...
LIFE TURBINES: Empowering smart renewable cities through hydropower technology in urban drinking water supply systems
Start Date
2023End Date
2027Description
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...
Di-Hydro: DIGITAL MAINTENANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE AND FLEXIBLE OPERATION OF HYDROPOWER PLANT
Start Date
2023End Date
2026Description
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...
D-HYDROFLEX: Digital solutions for improving the sustainability performance and FLEXibility potential of HYDROpower assets
Start Date
2023End Date
2026Description
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....
iAMP-Hydro: intelligent Asset Management Platform for HYDROpower operation & maintenance
Start Date
2023End Date
2026Description
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,...
H-HOPE: Hidden Hydro Oscillating Power for Europe
Start Date
2022End Date
2026Description
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...
Hydro4U: Hydropower For You - Sustainable small-scale hydropower in Central Asia
Start Date
2021End Date
2026Description
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....
RELY: Reliable reinforcement learning for sustainable energy systems
Start Date
2023End Date
2025Description
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...
ETIP Hydropower: ETIP Hydropower Europe
Start Date
2022End Date
2025Description
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...
Key stimuli for the detection of fish bypasses
Start Date
2018End Date
2025Description
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,...
HyKinetics: An innovative axial turbine for conversion of hydro-kinetics energy to electricity in rivers and canals
Start Date
2020End Date
2023Description
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...
RIBES: RIver flow regulation, fish BEhaviour and Status
Start Date
2020End Date
2023Description
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...
AFC4Hydro: Active Flow Control system FOR improving HYDRaulic turbine performances at off-design Operation
Start Date
2019End Date
2023Description
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...
HYPOSO: Hydropower solutions for developing and emerging countries
Start Date
2019End Date
2023Description
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...
Turbulent: A revolutionary HYDRO POWER technology to sustainably exploit super-low-head water steps
Start Date
2019End Date
2022Description
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...
HYPOS: HYdro-POwer-Suite
Start Date
2019End Date
2022Description
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...
HYDROPOWER-EUROPE
Start Date
2018End Date
2022Description
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...
HydroFlex: Increasing the value of Hydropower through increased Flexibilty
Start Date
2018End Date
2022Description
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...
EUROFLOW: A EUROpean training and research network for environmental FLOW management in river basins
Start Date
2017End Date
2022Description
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...
CliRSnow: Statistically combine climate models with remote sensing to provide high-resolution snow projections for the near and distant future.
Start Date
2018End Date
2021Description
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...
FIThydro: Fishfriendly Innovative Technologies for Hydropower
Start Date
2016End Date
2021Description
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...
AMBER: Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers
Start Date
2016End Date
2020Description
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...
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.
Start Date
2016End Date
2020Description
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...
Waterjade: Waterjade: the global platform to predict water resources
Start Date
2019End Date
2019Description
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...
HYDROGO: Energy from water in motion: efficient, customisable off-grid hydro-electricity for rural areas with stream access
Start Date
2018End Date
2019Description
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...
SHYDRO-ALP: Quantifying ecological effects of small hydropower in Alpine stream ecosystems
Start Date
2017End Date
2019Description
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...
KEEPFISH: Knowledge Exchange for Efficient Passage of Fishes in the Southern Hemisphere
Start Date
2016End Date
2019Description
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,...
BINGO: Bringing INnovation to onGOing water management – A better future under climate change
Start Date
2015End Date
2019Description
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...
SMART Slowflow: Kinetic Micro Hydro System for electrification of rural areas
Start Date
2018End Date
2018Description
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...
RIVER-POWER: Water flow kinetics energy exploitation for mini/micro hydropower plants.
Start Date
2017End Date
2017Description
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...
