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...
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...
ALPHEUS: Augmenting grid stability through Low-head Pumped Hydro Energy Utilization & Storage

Start Date
2020End Date
2024Description
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
WATEC: Development of a novel wave tidal energy converter (WATEC) to lower renewable electricity generation costs
Start Date
2017End Date
2017Description
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...