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Entura’s specialists share industry insights as 2024 ICOLD Conference gets underway in New Delhi

1 October, 2024

 Entura specialists are sharing their insights into dam safety and pumped hydro energy storage at the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) 2024 Annual Meeting and International Symposium, held this week in New Delhi. 

Join us at the Entura booth, Stall 53 (pictured below), to meet and discuss dam safety, pumped hydro storage and training.  

Amanda Ashworth (Managing Director) and Richard Herweynen (Technical Director, Water) Praveen Kumar (Specialist Consultant) and Rajeev Raina (India Director and team leader) look forward to engaging with technical peers, existing and potential clients, and a range of stakeholders in the water and power sector.  

Amanda, Richard and Praveen will present papers on 1 and 2 October.  

Amanda’s presentation (1 October), ‘Building dam safety capability for the future: an essential part of your dam safety program’, focuses on the need for those who design, operate, inspect and maintain dams to have the right skills and competencies to comply with evolving standards, apply new technologies, and respond to changing operational circumstances and demands. 

“Water and power utilities and asset owners are recognising that investing in the capability of their people assets is equally important as investing in their physical assets, and that well-trained people are key to dam safety,” says Amanda. 

“I am proud to present our insights based on Entura’s experience of partnering with a range of stakeholders across the Indo-Pacific region to deliver contemporary, tailored, workplace-based training informed by global best practice via the Entura clean energy and water institute – helping organisations to better manage risk and achieve their long-term business goals and strategy.” 

Richard will present 2 papers on 2 October: ‘Hydro Tasmania’s risk-based, systems approach to dam safety management’, and ‘The importance of pumped hydro in Australia’s energy transition’.  

“It’s exciting to see the increasing interest in pumped hydro’s ability to support the energy transition by providing the crucial deep storage and firming solutions needed as grids incorporate more variable renewable energy sources, like wind and solar PV,” says Richard.  

“I’ll be sharing some insights into Entura’s experience of working on Genex Power’s Kidston Pumped Storage Hydro Project in Queensland and the process of selecting and designing a new pumped hydro opportunity in Tasmania.” 

Praveen also presents on 2 October on ‘Creating pumped hydro energy storage atlases to understand opportunities: Examples from Australia and India’. The presentation will explore Entura’s approach to identifying and screening potential pumped hydro opportunities, which has been applied successfully in India as well as in Australia. 

This week’s ICOLD gathering is the organisation’s 92nd annual meeting, attracting more than 1500 participants, with more than 300 presentations and 8 workshops across 5 days on the theme of ‘Dams for People, Water, Environment and Development’.