Collaborations
ReHydro will draw on the results of a range of national and international research and innovation activities that are relevant to the project and collaborate with them for knowledge exchange. The partners will bring these results into the project and, where possible, build on previous work to avoid overlap. To this end, we will plan individual workshop meetings to maximise synergies from the respective projects, and for projects where there are committees, we will coordinate ReHydro research with their members.
Ongoing projects
ETIP HYDROPOWER
ETIP HYDROPOWER brings together representatives from industry, academia, research centers, civil society, and associations to monitor and track the research activities for the hydropower sector and underline the importance of hydropower in the energy transition.
iAMP-Hydro
The iAMP-Hydro project “intelligent Asset Management Platform for Hydropower” will improve the operations of existing hydropower stations through the development of new digital sensors and services, which will collectively form iAMP: a novel intelligent Asset Management Platform encompassing secure, open and transparent data-sharing protocols and three novel digital solutions. These include new condition monitoring and predictive maintenance tools for hydropower turbines, the ecological water status monitoring and improved weather and flow forecasting.
Duration: 10/2023 – 09/2026
Di-Hydro
Di-Hydro’s innovation involves introducing a Decision-Making Platform and Digital Twin technology to the hydropower sector. Di-Hydro introduces digitalised tools to enhance their operational performance and environmental sustainability, empowering sustainable energy production through the development of cutting-edge digital and smart tools for hydropower plants. The Di-Hydro technology will be tried in three use cases in Greece, Italy and Serbia.
Duration: 10/2023 – 09/2026
Hydro4U
Hydro4U - Hydropower For You - is a project funded under the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and aims at demonstrating European small-scale hydropower technologies in Central Asia. The project will employ demonstration and planning activities as a two-fold approach to elaborate, demonstrate and disseminate reproducible ecologically, economically and socio-politically sustainable hydropower solutions. Hydropower solutions will be implemented in two demonstration plants one in Uzbekistan and another in the Kyrgyz Republic.
Duration: 06/2021 – 05/2026
PEN@Hydropower
The project PanEuropean Network for Sustainable Hydropower aims to promote the establishment and implementation of an effective and collaborative network in the field of sustainable hydropower sector for reaching the goal of Clean Energy Transition (CET) by 2050. It also promotes cross-disciplinary activities with the aim of knowledge sharing, boosting new interlinked collaborations and putting the basis for holistic solutions to the complex challenges of building a sustainable hydropower.
D-HYDROFLEX
The D-HYDROFLEX project is determined to support excellence in research on sensor technologies and digital solutions to support the digitalization in hydropower towards making hydropower plants more efficient, more sustainable and more competitive in providing ancillary services in power markets. D-HYDROFLEX aims to develop a digital toolkit for existing hydropower plants relying on sensors, digital twins, AI algorithms, cloud-edge computing and image processing.
Duration: 09/2023 – 08/2026
STOR-HY
STOR-HY focuses on minimizing investment and operating costs (CAPEX, OPEX) for innovative pumped storage projects by improving the lifetime and recyclability of components and equipment, and defining operation strategies for unconventional schemes through sensor-based condition, Wear&Tear monitoring systems to detect early failure mechanisms or postpone unnecessary maintenance actions, avoid unplanned outages (failures), limit planned outages, thereby providing higher overall plant availability.
Duration: 10/2024 – 09/2028
WE-ACT
Coordinated by the Technical University of Munich, the EU-funded WE-ACT project unites industry, policy, government, technical, and scientific leaders from Europe and Central Asia. The aim is to introduce a cutting-edge Decision Support System for water allocation, promoting inclusive, forward-looking planning that accounts for climate risks. WE-ACT seeks to optimize water allocation regimes, improve water policies, enhance water valuation, and foster stakeholder engagement for sustainable water resource management.
Completed projects
Xflex-HYDRO
XFLEX aims to demonstrate an innovative methodology for system integration of hydroelectric technology solutions such as digitalisation, hybridisation with chemical batteries and hydraulic short circuit, with variable speed being a key component and a reference, to provide further enhanced flexibility services. This enhanced flexibility provision is assessed both from the technological perspective and the market aspects. These innovative solutions also target an optimize maintenance plan to decrease the outage time and increase the availability of the plant. Demonstrations are scheduled in the cases of run-of-river, storage and pumped storage HPPs and they cover cases of refurbished, uprated and especially existing HPP to be applied and scaled to any unit size. XFLEX draws the roadmap for the exploitation of this set of innovative solutions to all the European HPP fleet .
Duration: 08/2019 – 02/2024