Seminar on Challenges Facing Hydropower

The aim of this seminar is to provide a platform for discussion between all parties on topics such as

• The reserved flow seen from authority-producer level perspectives as well as demonstrated by case examples from Slovenia and Norway; 

• The making of River Basin Management Plans - How to integrate the targets of the two directives (Directive on the promotion of the renewable energies & Water Framework Directive) to the National Renewable Energy Action Plans and to the River Basin Management Plans which are both currently being drafted by Member States?

• Certification for Hydro - Would a European level certification for hydro be possible and what would be the future prospects of it?

The seminar also takes participants to a site visit to see a small hydropower plant in the Wallonia region in Belgium and to a dinner at the Chaudfontaine Castle.