Planning & projects | Meeting the challenges


With IRENA emphasising the importance of refurbishment work in its latest report on hydropower, IWP&DC takes a look at some of the latest projects undergoing modernisation


Below: Mangla dam in Pakistan. GE is refurbishing hydropower units at the project


HYDROPOWER, DESPITE BEING THE most mature renewable technology, faces several challenges in the modern age, with one of the major issues being the need to update ageing fleets to meet modern power system requirements. This was highlighted in a recent report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) which focused on hydropower’s evolving role in the current energy arena. The report – The changing role of hydropower: Challenges and opportunities – produced in the


context of IRENA’s Collaborative Framework on Hydropower, provides a snapshot of the current status of hydropower and lays out a vision of how to realise its potential. With regards to refurbishment, it points out that regions like Europe, North America and Oceania have considerably older fleets than others such as Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America – showing there is a clear distinction between developed and developing economies. This can be explained due to the fact that developed economies


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