Hydropower
Nexus Workshop // IHE Delft Sustainable Hydropower Workshop 2020
IHE Delft is organizing an exciting workshop asking the question: Can hydropower be sustainable? It will take place on the 28th and 29th of April…
Special Session at 38th IAHR World Congress // Sustainable Water Storage to Meet Water, Food, and Energy Development Goals
Storage to stabilize water availability is essential to sustain water, food and energy production, reduce hazards, and adapt to climate change.…
Session at EGU General Assembly 2019 // Hydropower and Other Renewable Energy Sources: Integration and Planning amid the Water-Energy Nexus
The transition to a low-carbon economy and programs of nuclear power phase-out will require the development of innovative methods to integrate…
Session at EGU General Assembly 2019 // Sustainable Water Storage for Food and Energy Production
Superficial water storage is essential to sustain and stabilize water supply, food and energy production, reduce hydro-climatological hazards, and…
Conference // Water Storage and Hydropower Development for Africa
The connection of energy and water is most obvious in electricity generation through hydropower. Plus dams have an important impact on the…
Hydropower // Is the Consideration of a Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus a Solution on the Search for Greener Hydropower?
By Miroslav Marence and Mário Franca. Hydropower is accountable for approximately 16% of world electrical energy production and it is the largest…
Publication // Integrated modelling of the impacts of hydropower projects on the water-food-energy nexus in a transboundary Himalayan river basin
By Amjath-Babu, T. S., Sharma, B., Brouwer, R., Rasul, G., Wahid, S. M., Neupane, N., ... & Sieber, S. (2019). This paper looks at hydropower…
Publication // What-If: An Open-Source Decision Support Tool for Water Infrastructure Investment Planning within the Water–Energy–Food–Climate Nexus
By Raphaël Payet-Burin, Mikkel Kromann, Silvio Pereira-Cardenal, Kenneth Marc Strzepek and Peter Bauer-Gottwein. This paper presents a new…
Tool // Climate, Land (Food), Energy and Water Systems Approach (CLEWs)
The Climate, Land (Food), Energy and Water systems approach (CLEWs) focuses on assessing interlinkages between resource systems in order to…
Partnership to Promote Water and Energy Sustainability // Sustainable Water and Energy Solutions
The Sustainable Water and Energy Solutions is a partnership by the United Nation's Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and the…
Irrigation versus Hydropower // Sectoral Conflicts in Southern Sri Lanka
By François Molle, Priyantha Jayakody, Ranjith Ariyaratne and H. S. Somatilake. Although hydropower does not directly consume water, its generation…
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean // Priority Interconnections
By Antonio Embid Irujo and Liber Martin. This paper analyses the water-energy-food (WEF) Nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean. By briefly…
Water, Land and Ecosystems // Water-energy-food weave a tangled web. Here’s how we can navigate it
By Jennie Barron. Ethiopia is currently building one of the world’s largest hydroelectric dams on the Blue Nile River close to its Sudanese border.…
Hydropower // The Water-Energy Nexus in Chile: A Description of the Regulatory Framework for Hydroelectricity
This article offers a general description of hydropower regulations in Chile wherein two sectors that are regulated separately come to meet each…
Presentation // The Role and Perspective of Hydropower in Water-Energy-Food Nexus in China
By Liu Heng, International Center on Small Hydropower, GWP China Regional Technical Committee. With key figures for water supply and hydropower…