• 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 ...
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  IEAHydro co-hosted a FULL-DAY WORKSHOP on "Best Practices for Renewal and Upgrading of Hydropower Facilities to Maintain and Provide Value to the Power System" on July 18, 2011 at Hydrovision International, Sacramento, California.

• Participants at the Workshop  
  - heard about case histories and modern technologies, including hydropower projects to provide ancillary services for the integration of intermittent wind and solar power generation
  - discussed the establishment of  the economic values of water and energy services provided by multi-purpose hydropower projects beyond the generation of renewable electricity
  -  gained insight into upgrading existing hydropower plants and retrofitting existing non-powered dams 
  - participated in the review of best practices being compiled by the U.S. Department of Energy Hydropower Advancement Project
  - learnt how they can benefit from the work of our Annex IX and 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)

• Hosted by the Ministry of Mines and Energy of Brazil & CEPEL in partnership with the IEA), the Sustainable Hydropower Conference was recently held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The new IEA Hydropower Roadmap initiative was launched at the meeting. Read more...