Click on the following links for the latest in IEA Hydro's activities, hydropower news & hydro happenings, world-wide.

April 4 - 6, 2011 in Washington, D.C., at the 2011 National Hydropower Association Annual Conference,

http://www.nationalhydroconference.com/index.html

Hydrovision International will be held in Louisville, Kentucky 17-20 July, 2012. For more information...

International Journal on Hydropower & Dams will host the HYDRO 2012 International Conference and Exhibition in Bilbao, Spain, 29-31 October, 2012. Call for papers and information brochure....

The India Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, offers an International Training Programme on Rural Electrification With Small Hydropower. 6 -17 March, 2012; 21 May - 2 June, 2012 and 20 May - 1 June, 2013 only for participants from African Countries. See brochure for more details ...

The Roorkee Institute is also offering a Masters of Technology programme in Alternate Hydro Energy Systems. For criteria of entry & prospectus ...

The International Centre for Hydropower (ICH), Trondheim, Norway, has announced courses for 2012. See the ICH website for details ...

International Water Power & Dam Construction now has a free, fully searchable database of articles and news stories 1998 -present.

How much hydro power could be built at undeveloped sites?

The IHA and the IEA estimate the world’s total technical feasible hydro potential at 14,000 TWh/year, of which about 8000 TWh/year is currently considered economically feasible for development.

At present about 808 GW in operation or under construction. Most of the potential for development is in Africa, Asia and Latin America with Asia having the greatest economically feasible potential at 3600 TWh/year.

South America has an economically feasible potential of 1600 TWh/year and Africa's potential is 1000 TWh/year. In the United States the Department of Energy has identified 5,677 sites with undeveloped capacity of about 30,000 MW.

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