Hydro 2015

Key Topics

• Technology: electro-mechanical equipment
  • Pumped-storage: role, benefits and technical advances
  • Innovation in design
  • Uprating and refurbishment
  • Hydraulic machinery (R&D and operational issues)
  • Remote controlled operation
  • Operation and maintenance
  • Flow measurement and instrumentation
  • Electrical engineering
• Potential, planning and development
  • Climate change and carbon trading
  • Development opportunities worldwide
  • Hydro development in harmony with the environment
  • Greenhouse gas emissions from reservoirs
  • Preserving and promoting cultural heritage
  • Social aspects and communications
  • Maximizing the multiple benefits of hydro
• Safety
  • Ensuring public safety around dams
  • On-site safety during dam construction
  • Safety of powerplants, transformer caverns and underground works
  • Managing external threats: physical and cyber security
  • Designing for safe operation of gates, valves and penstocks
• Civil works: planning, design and construction
  • Dam engineering: Materials, design and construction
  • Underground works and tunnelling
  • Managing problems of sedimentation
  • Spillways and gates: design and function
  • Flood discharge works
• Succession planning
  • Experience of young engineers in joining the profession
  • Motivating students and young professionals
  • Passing on knowledge and experience to the next generation
  • Educational and exchange programmes
• Financial, commercial and contractual aspects
  • Managing financial and commercial risk
  • New approaches to financing (BRICS NDB, hybrid financing, etc)
  • Concession agreements and contractual issues
  • Structuring of projects
  • Case studies
  • Project preparation to avoid financial delays