Introducing HyPeak: An international network on hydropeaking research, practice, and policy
2022
Alp, Maria | Batalla, Ramon | Bejarano, Maria Dolores | Boavida, Isabel | Capra, Hervé | Carolli, Mauro | Casas-Mulet, Roser | Costa, Maria João | Halleraker, Jo Halvard | Hauer, Christoph | Hayes, Daniel | Harby, Atle | Noack, Markus | Palau, Antoni | Schneider, Matthias | Schönfelder, Lennart | Tonolla, Diego | Vanzo, Davide | Venus, Terese | Vericat, Damià | Zolezzi, Guido | Bruno, Maria Cristina | RiverLy - Fonctionnement des hydrosystèmes (RiverLy) ; Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | University of Lleida (UL) | Instituto Catalán de Investigación del Agua - ICRA (SPAIN) ; Instituto Catalán de Investigación del Agua - ICRA (SPAIN) (ICRA) | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) | CEris, ICIST, Instituto Superior Técnico ; Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa | SINTEF Energy Research | Technische Universität München = Technical University of Munich (TUM) | Norwegian Environmental Agency | Norwegian University of Science and Technology [Trondheim] (NTNU) ; Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) | Universität für Bodenkultur Wien = University of Natural Resources and Life [Vienne, Autriche] (BOKU) | Hochschule Karlsruhe – Technik und Wirtschaft Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Karlsruhe – Technik und Wirtschaft Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences) | Universitat de Lleida | SJE Ecohydraulic Engineering GmbG | ZHAW School of Engineering ; Zürich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) | Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) ; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich) | Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM) | University of Trento [Trento] | Fondazione Edmund Mach - Edmund Mach Foundation [Italie] (FEM) | HyPeak
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. An increase in the demand for renewable energy is driving hydropower development and its integration with variable renewable energy sources. When hydropower is produced flexibly from hydropower plants, it causes rapid and frequent artificial flow fluctuations in rivers, a phenomenon known as hydropeaking. Hydropeaking and associated hydrological alterations cause multiple impacts on riverine habitats with cascading effects on ecosystem functioning and structure. Given the significance of hydropeaking’s ecological and socio-economic implications, mitigation requires an inter- and transdisciplinary approach. An interdisciplinary network called HyPeak has been conceived to enrich international research initiatives and support hydropower planning and policy. HyPeak has been founded based on exchange and networking activities linking scientists from several countries where hydropeaking has been widespread for decades and numerous studies dedicated to the topic have been carried out. HyPeak aims to integrate members from other countries and continents in which hydropower production plays a relevant role, and grow to be a reference group that provides expert advice on the topic to policy-makers, as well as researchers, stakeholders and practitioners in the field of hydropeaking.
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