Ecological impacts of run-of-river hydropower plants—Current status and future prospects on the brink of energy transition

A Kuriqi, AN Pinheiro, A Sordo-Ward… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
The general perception of small run-of-river hydropower plants as renewable energy
sources with little or no environmental impacts has led to a global proliferation of this …

Water-energy-ecosystem nexus: Balancing competing interests at a run-of-river hydropower plant coupling a hydrologic–ecohydraulic approach

A Kuriqi, AN Pinheiro, A Sordo-Ward… - Energy Conversion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The water-energy-ecosystem nexus represents a complex interlinkage that depends on the
flow regime type. Inadequate environmental flows setting may adversely affect the riverine …

Flow regime aspects in determining environmental flows and maximising energy production at run-of-river hydropower plants

A Kuriqi, AN Pinheiro, A Sordo-Ward, L Garrote - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigates the influence of the river flow regime type on the e-flows releases
and hydropower production, constrained by eight hydrologically-based e-flows methods. For …

Asymmetric impact of energy consumption and economic growth on ecological footprint: using asymmetric and nonlinear approach

K Baz, D Xu, H Ali, I Ali, I Khan, MM Khan… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The main objective of this article is to examine the impacts of energy consumption and
economic growth on environmental quality in Pakistan. We use the ecological footprint …

[HTML][HTML] An in-depth analysis of the evolution of the policy mix for the sustainable energy transition in China from 1981 to 2020

L Li, A Taeihagh - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Global warming and the acute domestic air pollution in China have necessitated transition to
a sustainable energy system away from coal-dominated energy production. Through a …

Costs of mitigating the environmental impacts of hydropower projects in the United States

GA Oladosu, J Werble, W Tingen, A Witt… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Developers are required to mitigate the environmental impacts of hydropower projects in the
United States (US) but there is very little accessible information on the associated costs. This …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the energy potential of modernizing the European hydropower fleet

E Quaranta, G Aggidis, RM Boes, C Comoglio… - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
About 50% of all hydropower plants (HPPs) worldwide were originally commissioned more
than 40 years ago, so that the advanced age of the fleet is a major concern across all …

Optimisation of cascade reservoir operation considering environmental flows for different environmental management classes

N Suwal, X Huang, A Kuriqi, Y Chen, KP Pandey… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Most commonly, hydropower operation focused on the economic and social benefits of the
humankind, whereas neglecting the riverine ecosystem conservation. This conventional …

Forecasting the industrial solar energy consumption using a novel seasonal GM (1, 1) model with dynamic seasonal adjustment factors

ZX Wang, ZW Wang, Q Li - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to influences of natural and social factors, the data of solar energy consumption
generally show the characteristic of seasonal fluctuations. In order to forecast data with …

Environmental flows assessment in Nepal: the case of Kaligandaki River

N Suwal, A Kuriqi, X Huang, J Delgado, D Młyński… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Environmental flow assessments (e-flows) are relatively new practices, especially in
developing countries such as Nepal. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the …