Hydropower: Higher Efficiency under Changing Conditions

Author(s) Robert Boes Co-authors: Andreas Bauder, Martin Detert, Daniel Farinotti, David Felix, Martin Funk, Robert Kriewitz, Adriano Lais, Jilles Lucas, Georg Möller, Felix Würsten<br/> Language: de, en Price: free Purchase: http://www.esc.ethz.ch/publications/newsletter/ESC Journal: ESC-NEWS Newsletter of the Energy Science Center at ETH Zurich Publication type: Journal, booklet

Hydropower is the most important pillar of the Swiss electricity sector, and its importance is only likely to increase further over the coming decades. Although hydropower is a technically mature technology, it still provides a ripe field for research. At ETH Zurich, a wide variety of themes surrounding future electricity production are being researched.