hydropower

Water in the fossil-free transition: a system approach to governing the water-energy nexus

Project / This project improves the understanding of water usage in river basins, energy needs, impact of increased renewables & water demand on ecosystems.

Investing in agricultural water management: Pathways to a sustainable future

Other publication / International financing institutions must learn from past mistakes in agricultural water investment and direct their money to key promising approaches.

Multi-objective optimal operation of cascade hydropower plants considering ecological flow under different ecological conditions

Journal article / The study develops a decision-making support model that can quantitatively analyse the tradeoffs between hydro-energy generation and river ecosystem conditions.

Out of the Shadows

Project / The project's aim is to explore how to ensure inclusion of Sámi reindeer herding communities in the review of environmental licenses for hydropower.

Can poop power the planet?

Feature / Poop is a sustainable alternative source of energy that could help reduce emissions that lead to climate change.

Defections and death spirals

Perspective / There is great potential for synergies to emerge when gridless technologies for energy and WASH are combined in off-grid settings.

The bigger the better?

Perspective / This piece explores the influence of scale economies on developments in the global electricity sector.

An impossible tangle of things we can’t understand?

Perspective / A look at the development of grid-based technologies in modern society.

Using the Freshwater Health Index to assess hydropower development scenarios in the Sesan, Srepok and Sekong river basin

Journal article / In the Sesan, Sekong and Srepok (3S) River basin, using the Freshwater Health Index (FHI) to diagnose the basin’s freshwater health.