Hydropower enables a higher share or renewable and intermittent power production in the system at the same time ensuring high delivery security. At this moment it is more important than ever to deliver and disseminate knowledge enabling hydropower to also in the future contribute with these strengths, making our system more resilient to the challenges of an energy transition. This is one of the most important goals of Energiforsks research.
We also take into consideration that Swedish hydropower to a large extent consists of aging facilities in need of maintenance and sustainable renewal to be able to continue deliver power to the system. The research and development carried out in our programs provides the industry with new methods and increases knowledge on how to best care for and renew their power plants.
We make it easier for Swedish hydropower to adapt to, and change together with, a continuously changing socio-economic and technological environment. This is fundamental to fully capture the role of hydropower not only in todays power system but also the futures.
