Run-of-river hydropower plants usually lack significant storage capacity; therefore, the more adequate control strategy would consist of keeping a constant water level at the intake pond in order to harness the maximum amount of energy from the river flow or to reduce the surface flooded in the head pond. In this paper, a standard PI control system of a run-of-river diversion hydropower plant w...

1 Recent droughts and heatwaves showed the vulnerability of the electricity sector to surface water 2 constraints with reduced potentials for thermoelectric power and hydropower generation in different 3 regions. Here we use a global hydrological-electricity modelling framework to quantify the impacts of 4 recent drought and warm years on hydropower and thermoelectric power usable capacity worl...

The concept of green hydropower needs an evaluation procedure for the ecological upgrading of hydropower plants based on scientific criteria [1]. For the planning and evaluation of riverrestoration programs, concepts like “ecosystem integrity” or “river health” have been proposed and empirically tested. Computer programs have been developed, which allow the testing of alternative restoration co...

• Dual hydro-reservoir is introduced in a system with renewable energy sources. Downstream hydropower operates to mitigate runoff disruption from upstream one. A model minimizing both power output variability and river flow alteration built. Capacity integrate wind photovoltaic without disturbing obtained. Two key features determining capacity are water head reservoir storage capacity. Hydropow...

The potential of Harmony Search Algorithm (HSA) which is an optimization technique presented a few years ago, has encouraged scientists from various fields to solve complex, large scale problems. Because of its successful implementations, it is considered as a robust optimization tool and publications regarding its applications show a remarkable increase. In the present paper, along with a brie...

The world is facing a more water constrained future as a result of urbanisation, population growth, industrialisation and the emergence of climate change. This has direct impacts on the resilience and performance of the energy and food industries, as water plays a key role in electricity generation processes and agriculture production. Water, energy and food dependencies are more evident in tra...

The present study proposes a support vector machine (SVM)-based habitat model linked with evolutionary optimisation to balance the impacts of generating hydropower on downstream river habitats. This method was applied in Rajaei reservoir and Tajan River basin Iran mitigate environmental plants. SVM classified suitability at which sigmoid function considering different slopes applied. Nash–Sutcl...

The curse of dimensionality and computational time cost are a great challenge to operation of large-scale hydropower systems (LSHSs) in China because computer memory and computational time increase exponentially with increasing number of reservoirs. Discrete differential dynamic programming (DDDP) is one of the most classical algorithms for alleviating the dimensionality problem for operation o...