About the Swedish Centre for Sustainable Hydropower
One of the challenges for the sustainable energy system is to ensure balance of the power system. Hydropower, with its flexibility and cost-effective regulation capacity, plays a key role here. This competence centre is a collaboration between the hydropower industry, academia, and government authorities to ensure that hydropower can continue to be an enabler of a well-balanced Swedish energy system in a changing energy system.
Sustainable, safe, and optimised hydropower are some of the most important factors in Sweden’s transition to a sustainable energy system. SVC – Swedish Centre for Sustainable Hydropower is anchored in the latest technical and environmental research with participation from seven different universities as well as stakeholders from industry and government agencies. Multidisciplinary research and innovative solutions strengthen Sweden’s hydropower position and ability to meet new conditions in the energy system. The centre is one of eleven competence centres funded in the Swedish Energy Agency’s joint initiative to build knowledge and skills that accelerate the energy transition.
Luleå University of Technology is the host university for the centre and Energiforsk is coordinating the centre’s activities.
Our funding organisations
Government authorities
- Energimyndigheten
- Svenska kraftnät
- Havs- och vattenmyndigheten.
Universities
- Chalmers tekniska universitet
- Karlstads universitet
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Luleå University of Technology
- Lunds universitet
- SLU, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Umeå University
- Uppsala University
Company
- Afry
- Andritz Hydro
- Boliden
- Fortum
- Holmen
- Jämtkraft
- Jönköping Energi
- Karlstads Energi
- LKAB
- Mälarenergi
- Norconsult
- Aker Solutions
- Skellefteå Kraft
- Statkraft
- Sweco
- Tekniska verken i Linköping
- Uniper
- Vattenfall
- Vattenregleringsföretagen
- Voith
- WSP
- Zinkgruvan Mining
- Vattenkraftens miljöfond
