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At Polish Hydropower Conference 2019

On 9-10 October 2019 prof. Petras Punys, dr. Egidijus Kasiulis, MSc Linas Šilinis and PhD student Linas Jurevičius from Institute of Water Resources Engineering together with assoc. prof. Algirdas Radzevičius from Institute of Hydraulic Engineering participated in 9th Polish Hydropower Conference HYDROFORUM 2019. Assoc. prof. Algirdas Radzevičius presented first LIFE NEXUS project results from Lithuania, Poland and Spain, concerning the web-based atlas of micro-hydro inventory in urban water networks (co-authored by prof. Petras Punys). Dr. Egidijus Kasiulis presented the issues that are leading dam removal processes across Europe and the Baltic States (co-authored by MSc Linas Šilinis). PhD student Linas Jurevičius presented first findings of his PhD thesis concerning optimal operation of large hydropower (Kaunas hydropower plant) reservoir. The conference finished with study tour around biggest hydropower plant in Poland – Solina hydropower plant (installed capacity of 200 MW), which operates as mixed pumped storage plant. Two turbines at this plant are installed only to produce electricity while the other two have ability also to reverse flow to upper reservoir.