Faced with increasing energy needs and with the threats weighing on our environment, the world aspires to energy supply that is compatible with sustainable development.

Hydroelectricity can satisfy this requirement: it already supplies 17% of the world’s electricity production; its economically usable potential is considerable, particularly in emerging countries that require most energy; its environmental impacts are small and increasingly well controlled by technological progress.

In Grenoble, cradle of hydroelectric power, industrial firms, consultants and academics have created Hydro 21 to work towards this goal.

Hydro 21 is an association intended to better do to know the potential of competences of the Grenoble area in hydraulics and hydroelectricity.

Its members come from industrial and design offices, higher education institutions in engineering, University and private laboratories, research centres and they represent more than 1500 people working in this activity.