Following the launch of the 2024 World Hydropower Outlook in June, we brought together expert voices from across Europe to discuss the key trends highlighted in the report. The event aimed to provide critical insights and actionable recommendations for policymakers to enable better, faster hydropower development in the region.

On 4 September the panel showcased an in-depth analysis of the hydropower outlook in Europe, including:

• Climate resilience: How can Europe’s hydropower fleet be designed to reduce the impact of increasingly extreme climatic events?
• The European Commission’s electricity market design reform and its implications for flexibility and pumped storage hydropower
• Policy developments, such as the cap and floor mechanism in the UK.
• Insights into key projects recently commissioned and those in the development pipeline.
• Recommendations for policymakers to facilitate more efficient and expedited hydropower development.

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Speakers:

• Brendan Quigley, COO, Gruner Stucky (moderator)
• Janice Goodenough, CEO, HYDROGRID
• Tobias Keitel, CEO, Voith Hydro
• Iain Robertson Head of Statkraft Scotland, Statkraft
• Matteo Bianciotto, Senior Policy Manager, IHA
• Albino Marques, REN, Institutional Relations Director /
  ENTSOE, Coordinator for Continental Europe Region of the Operations Committee
• Adrian Lindermuth, Policy Advisor, Eurelectric.

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