for existing and greenfield hydropower plants. This handbook also aims at providing guidance for owners in preparing and … towards effective and safe OandM of hydropower facilities, including (i) objectives to be reached, (ii) activities and … basic principles of OandM for hydropower and provides examples of the consequences of inadequate OandM policies, programs …

The main priority for the Democratic Republic of Congo's power sector is to increase access to electricity. The … Democratic Republic of Congo is a large country with 10 million households of which 1.6 million have access to electricity. This … makes it the third largest population in the world without access to electricity. The report explores the current state of …

(RGoB) has,therefore, embarked on an ambitious plan to develop the renewable hydropower resourcesin the country. Large … hydropower plants generating 1,606 MW are already operational,and new plants with an additional capacity of3,658 MW are under … new hydropower by the end of the next decade, becoming by far the highest hydropower producer per capita in the world. The …

approaches to assess hydropower project impacts on downstream river ecosystems and people, and determine their Environmental … Flows (EFlows) commitments. The Handbook outlines a good practice approach for integrating EFlows into hydropower projects … be introduced (Section 2); 2. Understand the potential downstream impacts associated with hydropower development (Section …