17.01.2022

VERBUND is pioneering the hydropower plant of tomorrow – today, in the Styrian village of Rabenstein, analysing the efficacy of concepts such as ROVs, smart glasses, digital twins and the future of servicing.

10.01.2022

With its construction budget for 2021 illwerke vkw’s supervisory board has given the go-ahead for new projects to the tune of EUR 282 million. Projects in the company’s hydropower segment will focus on ...

03.01.2022

Last summer internationally renowned hydropower specialist Global Hydro Energy successfully completed its first project in the Finnish market. Hydropower station Puhos in the south-eastern part of the country ...

27.12.2021

They are called “floatovoltaics” – photovoltaic cells that are mounted on buoys that are set afloat on a water surface. When linked to a reservoir, this concept offers several advantages.

20.12.2021

Hydropower Central Asia and Caspian is a professional venue for business and government representatives to exchange experience and consolidate efforts for successful development of investment projects...

13.12.2021

Report Summary: This report by the European Union (EU)-funded XFLEX HYDRO project explores the emerging opportunities for hydropower plants to provide new short-term flexibility and...

06.12.2021

More than ever before, hydropower plant operators are choosing sophisticated pipeline solutions for their penstock. Indeed, the ductile cast iron pipes made by Tiroler Rohre GmbH (TRM) ...

29.11.2021

In 2020 Norway became Europe’s largest exporter of electricity. The unusually wet wea­ther in the second half of the year heralded magnificently productive conditions

22.11.2021

In July 2020, roughly nine months after the start of construction in the Canton of Graubünden, Albula Landwasser Kraftwerke‘s (ALK) Tischbach small hydroelectric power plant has commenced regular operations.

15.11.2021

VERBUND recently announced its decision to invest more than half a billion euros in the construction of Austrian pumped-storage projects Limberg III (in Kaprun in the province of Salzburg) and Reißeck II+ (in Carinthia).