Water

Hydropower can have adverse ecological influences on fish populaces and migrations and on water quality in the reservoirs and downstream and upstream and wastage. The POWER OF WATER PROJECT is determined and working closely with various experts to design and successfully build new ways of decreasing these negative impacts. The program’s application in these areas in eco-systems research and development comprise the following:

• Planning and developing low-impact hydropower technologies—The POWER OF WATER PROJECT are providing financing in apparatuses and new innovative methods to successfully demonstrate the environmentally and sea population friendly technologies. Its support has resulted in the development of a more efficient turbine and turbine management system which permits for the downstream passage of fish and a new suite of computational software that estimate fish migration and movement risk to help ensure that ecological impact is thoroughly considered whilst designing and manufacturing turbines and hydropower facilities.
• Water quality—The POWER OF WATER PROJECT are offering capital to support the development of improved and more accurate water temperature, aerating turbines dissolved and oxygen models that will allow the facility users and operators to meet environmental mandates, altogether whilst increasing energy supply from hydropower.
• Climate change— there have been questions concerning the impact of climate change on hydropower reservoirs and the hydropower facilities concerning increased contributions to greenhouse gasses. The POWER OF WATER PROJECT is financing and collaborating with a broad network of specialist to model new scientific methods that assess environmental situations surrounding hydropower.

Hydropower has the ability to increase the flexibility, sustainability and stability of the national grid of any region especially the stream and river abundant areas along the Silk Road Economic Belt and the tidal power associated with the coastlines along the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road route. Hydropower facilities also have the ability to integrate and combine the other natural resources such as wind and solar.

The POWER OF WATER PROJECT aims to maximize this potential by analysing the value of hydropower along the Silk Road Economic Belt along with making hydropower more appealing by reducing cost and increasing efficiency, sustainability and operational flexibility. The project is also contributing significantly to new methods to assess capacity requirements region by region to determine capacity factors and facilitate the integration of other natural environmentally resources.

The POWER OF WATER PROJECT are proud to have achieved so much in the areas of hydropower market acceleration and deployment. The plans defined below highlight just a few of the projects most current successes.

The POWER OF WATER PROJECT is backing a team of nation-wide laboratories at numerous important locations to generate more electricity and meet water demands whilst enhancing the environment. These research and development activities include but are not limited to extensive wide-ranging research and outreach strategies such as stakeholders and modelling.

The POWER OF WATER PROJECT supports the design of more effective and environmentally friendly hydropower turbines that will significantly improve upon older systems especially in regards to cost and value as the new turbines will be more efficient and robust.

An example of this is the project known as Alden Turbine. The Alden Turbine has been designed to decrease fish death rate and increase cleaner energy while generating energy superior to the conventional Francis turbines. After extensive research and development, researchers successfully and consistently demonstrated that Alden turbines allowed for harmless downstream passage and ideal hydropower efficiency.

The roll out of the fish friendly turbine will enable hydropower growth in areas that were previously off limits to hydropower because of potential impacts to fish populations and has opened up vast new markets.

Fish stock and marine life are of major concern when developing ecologically friendly power generating systems. To support maximum protection and freedom for marine life, the researchers involved must first truly understand and comprehend the circumstances encountered by marine life navigating turbine passages and spillways.

To meet this requirement, Green ESL invested in Sensor Fish, an advanced micro device positioned to study the conditions faced by marine life navigating through and around hydropower installations. Prior to the Sensor Fish, experts in the field such as biologists and engineers relied on computational models and limited data available. Now, as the instrument travels through the hydropower stations, biologists and engineers can make use of the accurate modern Sensor Fish device in real-world conditions to exactly measure differences in acceleration, turbulence and pressure.

Data from the innovative Sensor Fish will be a valuable asset that will reliably and cost effectively guarantee that our nation’s new and existing hydropower facilities not only provide renewable energy, but do so without damaging the environment or marine life.

The Chinese State have has supplied additional appropriations to the sum off $20.8 billion to Silkway Development Office of Energy and Renewable Energy. POWER OF WATER PROJECT will be in receipt off $XX million from this state fund, which was used to back macro and micro hydroelectric projects.

The POWER OF WATER PROJECT delivered seven competition based prizes to hydropower power stations along the Silk Road Economic Belt totalling $29.85 million, with more than $100 million in share costs. The competitive awards were successfully aimed at proving the inspiring annual power generation enhancements that can be realized from upgrading current facilities with modern turbine technologies and better operating management systems that will efficiently utilize the resources available.

The design, development, research, testing and employment has led to thousands of additional jobs including in areas related to hydropower such as the suppliers of parts that the hydropower facilities require. This has improved socio-economic characteristics of regions and also increased security and prosperity. At least several hundred jobs have been created in producing aluminium based parts.

The missions constituted the following enhancements: (a) installing more efficient and modern turbines that will improve power generation and lower negative environmental impacts; (b) utilize resources better including the additional upgrades to facilities to  operate with lower river flow rates or seasonal flows; (c) exploitation of presently diverted and unutilized water flows; (d) pioneering marine life protection, preservation and marine life route planning systems; and (e) re-designing new modern state of the art systems leading to an increase in reliability whilst reducing operation and maintenance costs.

Award recipients included cities, counties, and member’s private industry operating both large and small hydroelectric facilities.