December 2018 - The FutureDAMS Research Consortium

Floating solar on hydropower reservoirs – a low impact energy hybrid ?

Dec 19, 2018 | Research

By Barnaby Dye, FutureDAMS Research Associate A recent study financed by the World Bank suggests that low-cost floating solar panels could produce an equivalent amount of power at a fraction of the footprint of a large dam’s reservoir. Many developing countries have...

Call for papers: Dams, Development and Decison-making

Dec 12, 2018 | News

Call for papers: Development Studies Association Annual Meeting 2019, Milton Keynes, UK 19-21 June Deadline for abstracts: 14 January 2019 Session Title: Dams, Development & Decision-making Organizers: Pon Souvannaseng (University of Manchester); David Hulme...

Who should carry the financial risks in large private sector financed hydropower projects?

Dec 11, 2018 | Finance, News, Research, Social impacts

By Judith Plummer Braeckman (CISL) and Jamie Skinner (IIED) Large hydropower projects can cost more than a billion dollars to build. For the private sector, to whom Governments are increasingly turning for infrastructure finance, this represents a significant...

Watch: Prof Julien Harou on how to improve dam decision making

Dec 5, 2018 | News, Water resources

This autumn at UNESCO in Paris the International Hydropower Association held a meeting entitled ‘Improving decision-making for hydropower’. FutureDAMS Research Director Julien Harou was an invited speaker and gave the following 10 minute presentation on the...

Floating solar on hydropower reservoirs – a low impact energy hybrid ?

Call for papers: Dams, Development and Decison-making

Watch: Prof Julien Harou on how to improve dam decision making

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