Only few weeks are left till the HYDROFORUM 2021 Conference! We are proud to announce that the event will be held under the auspices of Polish Ministry of State Assets, Polish Ministry of Infrastructure and Polish Association of Electrical Engineers. Gdansk University of Technology [GUT] and Polish Academy of Sciences are among Conference Organisers now! Due to high interest in our event, the Conference venue has been moved from the IMP PAN Lecture Hall to the Main GUT Hall. Please, look for programme details in Bulletin 3. The bulletin repeats basic information about the conference goals and an update of some practical recommendations. We count very much on an inspiring debate serving well the goals of our meeting. You are invited to register online. Please note that the HYDROFORUM early bird discount is ends already on September 15th.
Polish Hydropower Conference HYDROFORUM 2021 in a hybrid format
After a pandemic forced one year pause we are resuming the cycle of our annual hydropower conferences. This time the HYDROFORUM conference will debate on October 13-15th in the premises of the Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery of Polish Academy of Sciences – at the site where the HYDROFORUM cycle commenced in 1973. Due to continuing pandemic, a hybrid debate format has been envisaged. Following the previous years, the conference is organised by the Polish Hydropower Association (TEW) together with the Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery of Polish Academy of Sciences (IMP PAN) and the Polish Association of Small Hydropower Development, acting under support of our partners. In case of significant fall in epidemic threat and the owner’s consent we are planning also a study visit to one of hydropower plants. Online registration via the website http://hydroforum.tew.pl/index.php/pl/rejestracja/rejestracja-online is now available along with that of sending us the completed registration from. The form, together with other conference documents is also available from our website http://hydroforum.tew.pl/index.php/en/
On April 23rd this year the International Hydropower Association Office announced the Joint Statement by Hydropower and Generator Associations on Covid-19. The statement emphasises that the efforts aimed at economic recovery after COVID-19 pandemia should be directed in a greater extent to the hydropower sector which on the one hand has substantially suffered due to uncertainty and lack of the financial liquidity and refinancing numerous hydropower projects and on the other one represents a significant and even essential source of electricity in numerous regions worldwide. Globally it is also the most significant source of "green" electricity and key tool providing grid safety and stability under conditions of rising penetration by intermittent electricity sources.
The Polish Hydropower Association is to be found among 16 signatories of the Statement. Our intention is to apply for assigning a part of the resources of the EU 2022-27 financial perspective and the fund of European economy recovery after COVID 2019 pandemia. The full text of the Statement is available here.
On April 23, 2020, a video conference was organized by the International Hydropower Association (IHA) under the name "Global Positioning of Sustainable Hydropower in a Post-Covid World".
The main meeting was hosted by IHA Director General Eddie Rich.
The meeting agenda and topics discussed were presented in the form of presentation (download).
About 30 people took part in the videoconference, the main members analogous to our company from all continents.
Also our colleague Tomasz Dudkiewicz (member of the board of TEW) took part in the conference.
The conference HYDROFORUM 2000 is planed in Gdańsk at December, 10-11, 2020. The conference venue will be Instytut Maszyn Przepływowych in Gdańsk, ul. Fiszera 14. (Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery of the Polish Academy of Sciences - IMP PAN). The number of delegates is expected to reach about 90.
We will publish current information on HYDROFORUM web site hydroforum.tew.pl .
We invite you to participate.It is already possible to register participants and submit papers.
