TIES - Transforming
Hydropower

“TIES in an exciting opportunity to truly unite societal needs for sustainable energy with the needs of technical innovation in the hydropower sector. I am honoured to be leading this ground-breaking project.’’

“TIES is an exciting project to help transform hydropower into a more flexible, resilient and sustainable energy source, able to respond to evolving climate, environmental and energy-system challenges. Within this broader ambition, I am particularly motivated by the opportunity to combine advanced experiments and numerical modelling to better understand erosion processes and their impact on hydraulic turbine performance and reliability.”

“TIES is the first EU project I have been involved with where societal feedback can shape the direction of the project. As leader of outreach and communications within TIES, this creates both challenges and opportunities! It will be interesting to see how this develops over the course of the project and I am looking forward to interacting with our stakeholders.”

“TIES is genuinely interdisciplinary in nature. The project brings together expertise ranging from mechanical engineering and turbine design to environmental sciences, biology, civil engineering, sociology, and policy, all working toward a common goal: advancing hydropower technology while making it more resilient and sustainable.”

“TIES offers a unique opportunity not only to develop important innovations for the hydropower sector, but also to experiment with meaningful ways of involving, from the outset, the societal actors who have a stake in the potential impacts of these innovations. ”

“Hydopower is a proven technology, serving people for many decades. It is built on many years of experience and accumulated knowledge, but at the same time it continues to develop through new ideas and approaches. For me, this project creates a unique opportunity to learn from the past while contributing to the future. ”

“TIES is about moving beyond the idea that energy production and healthy river ecosystems are competing objectives. This project provides an opportunity to better understand these trade-offs and develop solutions that make hydropower more flexible while reducing its ecological footprint. This is essential if hydropower is to play a truly sustainable role in the energy transition. ”