Hydropower is the most important source for renewable electricity today, contributing by nearly 90% of all renewable electrical energy worldwide. Globally, only about one third of all hydropower resources have still been utilized, and a rapid deployment of new hydropower projects is expected in the years up to 2020 and beyond. 

Hydropower is now a mature technology since it has been developed and refined through more than 100 years. Still, there is a need for more research both for developing better technological solutions, to study environmental impacts and mitigation measures, and more recently, focusing on climate change and its impact on hydropower.

There is also a growing interest in how to combine hydropower with other renewables in an optimal way, in order to provide peaking and load balancing services to the power system.

Target group
Researchers, PhD students and persons working in the hydropower industry in Norway and Internationally. Also MSc students within the field of renewable energy will be invited.

Key-note speakers

• Richard Taylor, Executive Director, International Hydropower Association (IHA)
• Luc Gagnon, Senior Advisor Climate Change, Hydro-Québec
• Prof. Stefan Schmutz, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)

• Scenarios for power system development in Europe
• Equipment and Technology
• Environmental/Social Effects
• Water Management and Climate Change Issues

Abstract submission
Researchers and PhD candidates are invited to submit abstracts according to the format described in call for abstracts to Ånund Killingtveit. Based on the submitted abstract, acceptance will be given for poster or oral presentation. The deadline for submission is 1 March 2010.

Scientific committee

• Ånund Killingtveit, NTNU
• Torbjørn Nielsen, NTNU
• Leif Lia, NTNU
• Atle Harby, SINTEF
• Tor Haakon Bakken, SINTEF
• Tore Jørgensen, International Centre for Hydropower (ICH)