Climate change negotiations: what’s at stake at COP24?
Twelve months after the UN Climate Conference in Bonn (COP23), the Polish city of Katowice hosts COP24.
Blog: Decisions that define success in a hydro digitalisation project
Across the world, the owners and operators of hydropower projects built decades ago are weighing up the benefits of updating their systems and controls with new digital technology.
Blog: Are you an asset manager or an ‘asset guesser’?
In the hydropower sector, we’re all trying to do more with less. And as hydropower assets age, there’s always more to be done.
Blog: Digitisation - a revolution for the hydroelectric sector
Despite the hydropower sector's familiarity with digitalisation, the new wave of innovation promises to bring profound changes to the way we build, design, operate and maintain our electrical systems.
Blog: The Australian government has put hydropower back in the spotlight
The Australian government has made hydropower a priority agenda item, to help deliver a more reliable and affordable energy system for all Australians.
Blog: Investment in pumped hydro could greatly increase network resilience
Investment in new pumped hydropower storage capacity could greatly enhance the flexibility and resilience of the electricity network.
Blog: Hydropower development in Ethiopia to attain sustainable growth
Hydropower based development in Ethiopia provides a gateway to economic transformation through industrialisation, urbanisation and through the provision of access to modern energy to rural areas.
Blog: Hydropower and Sarawak’s journey in renewable energy development
With Sarawak being unique and blessed with an abundance of natural resources, it is only logical to explore and harness renewables from these resources.
Blog: Digitisation is transforming hydropower operations and maintenance
The move towards digitisation is changing the way in which hydropower plants are operated and maintained.
Blog: Brazil and Paraguay’s Itaipu dam works to combine climate and sustainability action
The world's largest hydropower plant in terms of electricity generation is producing clean energy and avoiding negative climate and environmental impacts, writes Helio Gilberto Amaral, Head of Coordination at Itaipu Binacional.
Better Hydro: reducing sedimentation and erosion at Blanda, Iceland
The Blanda project, owned by Landsvirkjun, carried out one of the largest revegetation and erosion control programmes in Iceland's history. This case study demonstrates how the project's efforts to reduce sedimentation and erosion have benefitted local communities and biodiversity.
Guest blog: Hydrology and climate change - how climate models can help the hydropower sector
Climate change is a complex phenomenon which is under intense study by the scientific community for the risk it poses to sustainable development. Vinod Chilkoti, researcher at the University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada) writes about possible strategies for the hydropower sector.