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...
STOR-HY: INNOVATIVE STORAGE TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS IN HYDROPOWER
Start Date
2024End Date
2028Description
STOR-HY aims to minimize CAPEX, OPEX for innovative pumped storage projects. This is achieved by enhancing the lifetime and recyclability of components and equipment, and devising operation strategies for unconventional...
AGISTIN: Advanced Grid Interfaces for innovative STorage INtegration
Start Date
2023End Date
2026Description
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...
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,...
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...
EcoAdvance: EcoAdvance: Assessing and Consolidating Recent Advances in Freshwater Ecosystem Restoration
Start Date
2022End Date
2025Description
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...
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...
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...
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...
Lost-Biodiv: Predicting changes in species interactions following species loss in hydroelectric reservoir islands
Start Date
2019End Date
2021Description
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...
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...
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...
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...
