HYDROPOWER SUMMIT 2020 – PROGRAMME

Researchers and decision-makers from USA, Norway and EU meet in Trondheim February 4th for a high-level meeting and consecutive workshops to position, promote and facilitate hydropower research, development and innovation for the future. 

As an expression and statement for this joint, high-level collaboration, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy have agreed to formalize and strengthen the research collaboration on hydropower.

During the Hydropower Summit a Joint Annex on Hydropower under the U.S. and Norway Memorandum of Understanding will be signed. The summit is facilitated by FME HydroCen, Norwegian Research Centre for Hydropower Technology, and the workshops and breakout sessions are lead by researchers from NTNU, SINTEF and Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, NINA.

Hydropower High Level Meeting Agenda:

Tuesday February 4^th 2020, Hotel Britannia, Trondheim, Norway

12:00	Arrival and registration
14:00	Welcome and introduction Bjarne Foss, Pro-Rector NTNU, Norway Ivar Arne Børset, HydroCen
14:20– 15:40	Hydropower as a renewable system (Chaired by Johan Hustad) Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen, State Secretary of the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, Norway  Conner Prochaska, Chief Commercialization Officer, and Director of the Office of Technology Transitions, U.S. Department of Energy, USA  Paolo Frankl, Head of Renewable Energy Division, IEA Roland Roesch, Deputy Director, Innovation and Technology Centre, IRENA Rune Volla, Director, The Research Council of Norway
Break
15:50–   16:45	François Avellan, EPFL – XFlex-project and Hydropower Europe Anne Vera Skrivarhaug, Director, NVE, Norway Knut Kroepelien, Director, Energy Norway – Hydropower in a fully electrified society – barriers and opportunities Hilde Bakken, Executive Vice President, Statkraft –Statkraft’s motivation for R&D within hydropower Petter Støa, SINTEF – EERA – European Energy Research Alliance
16:50	Ceremony for the signing of the Joint Annex on Hydropower under the US-Norway Memorandum of Understanding
17:00	Session closing

Workshops and breakout sessions

Wednesday February 5^th 2020, NTNU Trondheim

09:00	Plenary Session with Key note speakers US Hydropower program HydroWires, USA – Samuel Bockenhauer AlternaFuture – Smarter operation and upgrades, HydroCen, Norway  – Kaspar Vereide FitHydro – Fishfriendly Innovative Technologies For Hydropower – Peter Rutschmann
10:15	Break
10:30	Battery of the Nation, Hydro Tasmania, Australia – Alex Beckitt IEA Hydropower Report: Annex IX – Valuing hydropower services   The Nordic perspective  – Vattenfall, Sweden, Mats Bilstein,
11:30	Lunch at Kjelhuset, Gløshaugen
12:30	Breakout Sessions

Session 1	Session 2	Session 3
Hydropower Optimization  Responsible: Birger Mo and Linn Emelie Schaffer	Technological Challenges  Responsible: Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug	Environmental Conditions  Responsible: Atle Harby and Line Sundt-Hansen

Thursday February 6^th 2020, NTNU Trondheim

08:30	Breakout Sessions

Session 1	Session 2	Session 3
Hydropower Optimization  Responsible: Birger Mo and Linn Emelie Schaffer	Technological Challenges  Responsible:  Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug	Environmental Conditions  Responsible: Atle Harby

Contacts:

Professor Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug, HydroCen/NTNU

Ida Antonsen, coordinator

Juliet Landrø, communication/media