On the advantages of jointly designing dam size and operations: a new paper on Earth’s Future

Globally, many countries are actively seeking to maximize the hydropower potential of major river basins, yielding proposals for constructing approximately 3,700 major dams in the near future. At present, economic cost‐benefit analyses are the dominant approach for evaluating candidate dam designs. Yet they typically fail to explore the interdependence of Read more…

eiLab @AGU Fall Meeting 2019​

Here the list of our contributions accepted for the AGU Fall Meeting to be held in San Francisco (CA), December 9-13: Seasonal drought forecasts to optimally balancing multisector interests during reservoir filling transients, Marta Zaniolo, Matteo Giuliani, Andrea Castelletti, and Paolo Burlando (ORAL) Exploring How Reservoir Design and Operational Trade-offs Read more…