The eight meeting of the Collaborative Framework aimed to provide participants with insights on the importance of sustainable hydropower projects in the energy transition.
The evolving energy transitions needs that demand skilled workforce calls for the development of institutional and human capacities through concerted action in education and skills building.
As worsening drought impacts the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, countries from Turkey to Syria and Iraq are dealing both with water stress and struggling hydropower plants.
Amid challenges and ongoing rescue, decentralized hydropower solutions bring hope and tangible benefits to communities in Mount Hagen and Hogave, Papua New Guinea.
Recent droughts in Colombia and Ecuador have severely hampered energy supplied by hydropower. How viable is the low-carbon renewable in an increasingly hot and dry world?
This latest edition of the IRENA Leveraging local capacity series explores the dynamic world of small-scale hydropower, offering insights into how this renewable energy source can be harnessed to spur economic growth and job creation, and enhance the well-being of communities.
The International Renewable Energy Agency organized a Sixth Virtual Meeting of the Collaborative Framework to discuss the results of the thematic scope survey shared with the Membership and helped define the Framework’s scope and workplan for the biennium.
The majority of hydropower assets, built several decades ago, need to be upgraded according to the report.
New data released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) shows that renewable energy continued to grow and gain momentum despite global uncertainties.
This publication presents statistics for the decade 2010-2019 in trilingual tables, covering off-grid power capacity, biogas production and numbers of people using off-grid power and biogas for cooking and lighting.
IRENA’s new spatiotemporal data atlas, AfREP-Hydro, covers all existing and several hundred committed, planned and potential future hydropower plants across Africa.
This workshop will be the first among multiple stakeholder engagement workshops planned as part of IRENA’s ongoing statistics support for NDC enhancement in Sudan.
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This report outlines key off-grid power and biogas data over the decade 2008-2017 in trilingual tables. The sector continues growing rapidly worldwide.
The RRA Validation workshop brought together renewable energy stakeholders in Azerbaijan to validate the recommendations of the draft RRA report.
This IRENA/IEA-ETSAP technology brief provides technical background, analyses the potential and the barriers for market growth, and offers insights for policy makers on the hydropower technology.
This working paper is part of a set of five reports on hydropower, wind, biomass, concentrating solar power and solar pholtovoltaics that address the current costs of these key renewable power technology options.