The hydropower sector plays a crucial role in delivering the EU’s climate, environmental and security of supply goals and supporting the transition to more green energy in Europe. In this context, hydropower, with its low CO₂ footprint, not only provides significant amounts of electricity for both base and peak load but also offers a range of diverse ancillary services for the energy sector. Hydro power thus remains an indispensable renewable energy that must be promoted as part of an ambitious energy security and climate policy.

Currently, hydropower is caught between economic efficiency on the one hand and nature conservation on the other and faces technical and operational challenges in connection with digitalisation in particular. All these aspects require a high degree of know-how, which is offered by vgbe energy and its network of experts.

Within our vgbe hydropower community, experience and knowledge have been shared at a high professional level in various vgbe hydro power committees for decades. There are more than 250 experts from operating companies, manufacturers, suppliers and consultants are actively cooperating in the vgbe’s hydropower committees.

vgbe energy facilitates communication and expert exchange on its network platform for all issues relating to technology, operation and plant safety of energy generation plants, such as flexibilisation, digitalisation or IT security. In addition, the long-standing close cooperation with Eurelectric allows us to work together on strategic issues at the EU level. Thus, the vgbe’s activities focus on short-term and practice-oriented as well as long-term and strategically oriented topics.