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IEA Hydro's ExCo members, Task Leaders and other experts met from April 30 to May 3 in Sion, Switzerland. At the end, a new communiqué was published to highlight soem of the most significant conclusions from the meetings.

According to IEA studies, global hydropower deployment is too slow to achieve necessary greenhouse gas emission targets. Discussions with IEA, IHA, World Bank and other stakeolders around the 42nd Executive Comittee meeting held in Washington DC have lead to the publication of a Communiqué explaining the need for more rapid global hydropower deployment. The Communiqué can be...

Annex XIII "Hydropower and Fish" has published its final report "Hydropower & Fish - A Roadmap for Best Practice Management". The report can be downloaded here.

A new report was published by Task 9 on hydropower services regarding flood and drought management. The report can be downloaded here.

Annex IX has published its latest report, Role and Challenges of Pumped Storage Hydropower Under Mass Integration of Variable Renewable Energy. The report looks at  power adjustment by PSHP in Europe, the USA, and Japan under mass integration of variable renewable energy, covering the role of PSHP,  the current status of PSHP business and...