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International Hydropower Association (IHA) World Congress on Advancing Sustainable Hydropower 2013

21-24 May 2013 | Kuching, Malaysia

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Highlights for Thursday, 23 May 2013

The International Hydropower Association (IHA) World Congress continued on Thursday, 23 May, in Kuching, Malaysia. Participants engaged in two plenary sessions, a CEO Roundtable discussing modern hydropower and one on informing decision-making in the context of emerging roles for the Protocol. Two parallel focus sessions took place, one on investing in hydropower and another on working with project-affected communities. A special lecture during lunch discussed the impact of delays on hydropower projects, in particular on the ability of projects to deliver benefits. Side events in the afternoon covered resettlement and operationalizing multipurpose hydropower.

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CEO Roundtable: What is modern hydropower?

A view of the dais during the CEO roundtable

Moderator David Appleyard, Chief Editor, HRW Hydro Review Worldwide
Gregory Tracz, IHA, introduced the roundtable

A view of the room during roundtable

Katai Kachasa, CEO, Lunsemfwa Hydro Power Company, Zambia, and Elsbeth Tronstad, SN Power

Wolfgang Semper, Chairman, Hydro Equipment Association (HEA)

Participants during the morning session

Roy Adair, CEO, Hydro Tasmania
Elsbeth Tronstad, SN Power

Participants during the roundtable

Terry Moss, ESKOM, poses a question during the Q and A session

Torstein Sjøtveit, CEO, Sarawak Energy Berhard (SEB) (left)

Jacob Irving, Canadian Hydropower Association (CHA)

Focus Session: Working with Project Affected Communities

A view of the dais during the session on project affected communities: Richard Koranteng Twum Barimah, Executive Director, Ghana Dams Dialogue, Shi Guoqing, Director, National Research Center for Resettlement, Hohai University, China, Stephen Sparkes, Vice President, Statkraft AS, Moderator Tan Sri Rastam Mohd Isa, Chief Minister’s Department, Malaysia, Eduard Wojczynski, Chair, Canadian Hydropower Association (CHA), Datuk Fong Joo Chung, Director, SEB, and Labang Paneh, Indigenous Peoples Representative at Murum, Malaysia

Datuk Fong Joo Chung, Director, SEB

Labang Paneh, Indigenous Peoples Representative at Murum, Malaysia

A view of the room during the session

The room during this session was filled to capacity.

 

IHA Executive Director Richard Taylor and IHA President Refaat Abdel-Malek

Richard Koranteng Twum Barimah, Executive Director, Ghana Dams Dialogue

Eduard Wojczynski, Chair, CHA (center)

Focus Session: Who's Investing in Hydropower?

A view of the dais during the session: Colin Clark, Chief Technology Officer, Brookfield Renewable Energy Group, Israel Phiri, Hydropower Consultant, Zambia, Waqar Ahmed Khan, CEO, Star Hydro Power Limited, and Kieron Stopforth, Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Judith Plummer, University of Cambridge
Waqar Ahmed Khan, CEO, Star Hydro Power Limited

Israel Phiri, Hydropower Consultant

Kieron Stopforth, Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Plenary Session: Informing Decision Making: Emerging Roles for the Protocol

A view of the dais during the session: Donal O’Leary, Transparency International (TI), Jian-hua Meng, WWF, Bernt Rydgren, ÅF Consult, Kate Lazarus, IFC, and Philipp Hauser, GDF SUEZ Energy Latin America

Donal O’Leary, Transparency International, Jian-hua Meng, WWF, and Bernt Rydgren, ÅF Consult
Philipp Hauser, GDF SUEZ Energy Latin America
Moderator David Harrison, The Nature Conservancy
Kate Lazarus, IFC, describes key messages from IFC's application of the Protocol.

 

Side Events

Tran Trung Tuyen, Power Generation Corporation 2, presenting during a briefing on resettlement: Case study of Song Bung 4 (Vietnam)

Side event on operationalizing multipurpose hydropower: Tormod Schei, Statkraft AS
Emmanuel Branche, EDF, during the side event on multipurpose hydropower
Exhibition Hall

Hydro Tasmania exhibit

 

Sarawak Energy Berhad booth

Participants networking

 

Sarawak Energy Berhad booth

 
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