Educational Material

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Module 1. An Introduction to Hydropower 

Topic 1 Introduction. History of hydropower use development. Hydropower is a reliable renewable energy source

Topic 2 The Hydropower Resource, Hydropower Sites and Types of Hydropower Plants (HPP)

Topic 3 Traditional hydropower plant technology. Dams and Barrages. Modern Hydropower Turbines

Topic 4 Hydropower Sustainability Standards. Assessment and certification of Hydropower Projects

Topic 5 An overview of hydropower development in Central Asia

Topic 6 Water Management for Climate Change Resilience: Priorities for Action

Module 2. Hydropower Plants and the Environment 

Topic 7 Policy Framework for Hydropower Environmental Impact Mitigation. International and National policies.

Topic 8 Integrating Natural and Built Infrastructure in Water Resource Development: What's Stopping Us?

Topic 9 Costs of Ecological Mitigation at Hydropower Plants

Topic 10 Hydropower and Sediments

Topic 11 Public Acceptance of Hydropower. Factors for Public Acceptance of Hydropower.

Topic 12 Flow alterations through hydropower: why, how, and what to do about it?

Topic 13 An introduction to peaking hydropower: processes, effects, and mitigation

Module 3. Water–Energy–Food Nexus Management in Practice: From Theory to System Dynamics and Planning Tools

Topic 14 WEFE-Nexus Explained: Integrating the Concept in Hydro4U

Topic 15 System Dynamic Modelling of the WEF NEXUS / Hydro4Planners simulation tool

Module 4. Aquatic habitat modelling for E-Flow Assessment

Topic 16 Environmental Flows: Concepts, Methods, Tools and Applications

Topic 17 Habitat modelling - applications and case studies. Habitat modelling – approaches and underlying concepts

Topic 18 Intro for habitat modeling with CASiMiR

Module 5. Sustainable Hydropower and River Protection – mitigating ecological impacts

Topic 19 Environmental Impacts and Risks of Hydropower. Risk and Impact Assessment. Decision Making on Mitigation Measures. Fish Hazard Index

Topic 20 Fishways and Bypass facilities – nature-like and technical constructions. Fish Swimming Behaviour and Fishpass Preferences. Migration Time and Passage Efficiency.

Topic 21 Fish diversity and migration studies in rivers selected for hydropower using Electrofishing and Telemetry – Case study – Shakhimardan river basin.

Topic 22 Fish Guidance Structures for downstream migration past hydropower plants

Topic 23 Habitat investigations in different scales as a method for assessing Environmental impacts to flow regime changes, introduction in mesoscale mapping and microscale modeling, Application of software CASiMiR in test case Shakhimardan. Conservation of habitats for indicator species in diverted rivers

Topic 24 Hydropeaking: mitigating short-term flow fluctuations based on ecological criteria

Module 6. Information on hydropower potential and development in Central Asian countries provided by other local scientists

Topic 25 Potential and perspectives of thew development of renewable energy sources in Kyrgyzstan

Topic 26 Hydraulic structures of Kyrgyzstan. Gravity dam of Toktogul reservoir