Welcome to the website of IEA Hydropower
The International Energy Agency Implementing Agreement
for Hydropower Technologies and Programmes
On this site you will find:
- information about our current activities
- details of our past achievements
- reports & technical information to download
- hydropower news & information
- links to hydropower journals and organisations worldwide
What's new at IEA Hydro?
IEA Hydropwer Roadmap Initiative
- An update on the International Energy Agency's Hydropower Roadmap initiative is available. The initiative was launched in May 2011 at the Sustainable Hydropower Conference hosted by the Ministry of Mines and Energy of Brazil & CEPEL in partnership with the IEA), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Read the December 2011 update report here...
- The International Energy's Renewable Energy Essentials: Hydropower (IEA, 2010) is available for free download. 1.5MB
- IEA Hydro's DRAFT "Guidelines for the Quantitative Analysis of Net GHG Emissions from Reservoirs" due for release March 2011. Read about this work...
- IEA Hydro's "Update of Recommendations on Hydropower and the Environment", prepared by Annex XII, are now available for download
The "Manual for Hydropower Inventory Studies of River Basins" (38MB, pdf), a joint collaboration between the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), Brazil, CEPEL and The World Bank, is now available in English. This 2010 edition, a translation of the 2007 Portuguese edition, "intends to offer the international community a basic reference to be considered in the portfolio of possible energy solutions in developing countries, which should be of interest to multilateral financing and development organizations"
Conference News
- IEAHydro's Annex XII held a Workshop on Managing Reservoir Emissions on Monday 17 October at HYDRO 2011, Prague, Czech Republic. The Workshop presented and discussed the ongoing research being undertaken by the IEA Hydropower Implementing Agreement to investigate issues associated with emissions from reservoirs. Discussion topics included: Status of measurement campaigns in Brazil; Unrelated anthropogenic sources; and country update reports. For more information on the work of this Annex ...
Annex XI: Renewal and Upgrading of Hydropower Plants
International Energy Agency, Hydropower Implementing Agreement, Annex IX: Hydropower Services
U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Hydropower Advancement Project (HAP)