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The Hydropower Europe forum devoted to the development of hydropower in the next decades

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Advanced control strategies to exploit the hydropower potential enhancing ancillary services provision to the power system

DBFS: Dynamic Bitwidth-Frequency Scaling for Efficient Software-defined SIMD

Green hydrogen production using Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 bioanode and cuprous oxide-based photocathode

'Fraternal-twin' ferroelectricity: competing polar states in hydrogen-doped samarium nickelate from first principles

Heuristic Estimation of the Vacuum Energy Density of the Universe: Part II-Analysis Based on Frequency Domain Electromagnetic Radiation

Renewable energy integration and waste heat valorization in aluminum remelting for co-producing kerosene and methanol

A comprehensive review on geomembrane systems application in hydropower

Fusing Pre-existing Knowledge and Machine Learning for Enhanced Building Thermal Modeling and Control

Global fluid simulations of plasma turbulence in stellarators

Solar-assisted clean steam generator, a cleaner production approach for sustainable healthcare facilities

On Multiphysical Couplings in Energy Geotechnics: Relevance and Applications

Characterization of Thruster-Induced Turbulence for Fine Sediment Suspension

The importance of young professionals for dam engineering in Switzerland

Renewable Energy Integration and Waste Heat Recovery for the Production of Sustainable Jet Fuel and Decarbonization of Industrial Heating Applications

Leveraging industrial biorefineries for the energy transition

Energy geotechnology: A new era for geotechnical engineering practice

Importance of hydropower reservoirs and dams in Europe to mitigate the energy crisis and to serve as a catalyst and enabler for the Green Deal

Endogenous Energy Efficiency Improvement in Housing and Cement Sectors in Switzerland

OccuVAE: Integrating unsupervised occupancy inference in data-driven energy modeling for human-centric operation

Dynamic environmental flows using hydrodynamic-based solutions for sustainable hydropower