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: Developing sustainable hydropower in Indonesia
The first application of the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol in Indonesia.
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: labour and working conditions at Santo Antônio, Brazil
This case study is featured in Better Hydro: Compendium of Case Studies 2017, which highlights examples of good practice in hydropower sustainability across all aspects of project development.
Hydropower in the Balkans
There is a giant battery in the south of Europe, and investors are taking interest in it.
Guest blog: Cameroon’s engineers are paving the way for small hydropower
Across Cameroon, there are estimated to be 200 potential sites suitable for small hydropower, which could offer remote communities access to off-grid electricity.
Better Hydro: regional initiative on sustainable hydropower
An application of the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol at Shardara in Kazakhstan led to a broader regional initiative.
Better Hydro: protecting biodiversity at Reventazón, Costa Rica
The Reventazón Hydroelectric Project (RHP) is one of the first Latin American hydroelectric projects to use a river offset approach.
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.
Guest blog: Keeping safe around dams
Angus Swindon, Entura's national director of power and water, explains that keeping the public safe around dams involves considering and mitigating some more common and less documented risks.