Seminar on Current Challenges Facing Hydropower Development in Europe: Reserved flow, River Basin Management Plans & Certification for Hydro

The European Water Partnership would like to remind you there are a limited number of places still available for the upcoming seminar:

Seminar on Current Challenges Facing Hydropower Development in Europe: Reserved flow, River Basin Management Plans & Certification for Hydro

1-2 October 2009, Brussels

Renewable Energy House, site visit to the Wallonia region

The deadline for registration has been extended to 23 September

The European Small Hydropower Association together with the European Water Partnership are pleased to invite you to a first in series of training seminars to discuss some of the most critical challenges that the hydropower sector is facing today. The aim of this seminar is to provide a platform for discussion between all parties on topics such as

• The reserved flow seen from authority-producer level perspectives as well as demonstrated by case examples from Slovenia and Norway; 
• The making of River Basin Management Plans - How to integrate the targets of the two directives (Directive on the promotion of the renewable energies & Water Framework Directive) to the National Renewable Energy Action Plans and to the River Basin Management Plans which are both currently being drafted by Member States?
• Certification for Hydro - Would a European level certification for hydro be possible and what would be the future prospects of it?

The seminar also takes participants to a site visit to see a small hydropower plant in the Wallonia region in Belgium and to a dinner at the Chaudfontaine Castle.

Please see more details in the programme attached.

REGISTRATION - deadline extended

Please register by sending the attached registration form to info@esha.be before 23 September.

The seminar fee is EUR 200 for ESHA/EWP members and EUR 280 for non-members. This includes lunches, dinner and the site visit. Registration is binding.

The registration is to be completed by a bank transfer in euro to the following bank account:

European Small Hydropower Association

Account n°: 001-3769665-30

IBAN BE15001376966530

Swift Code: GEBABEBB

Reference: ESHA-EWP Seminar 2009

Bank address: Fortis Banque, Quartier Léopold, Place du Luxembourg 14, B-1050 Brussels,

Belgium