Forecasting services for run-of-river hydropower plants

River flow forecasting services to enhance and optimize the peformance of hydropower plants.

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Hydropower API

Maximize your hydroelectricity production

Automate your hydropower plant further

Incoming river flow measurements unleash further water catchment and revenues.

Detect anomalies in real-time

Early anomaly detection reduces your reaction time and prevents your electricity production from suffering evitable losses.

Quantify efficiency drifts

Detect sub-optimal energy production and trigger maintenance prior to suffering losses.

Increase revenues, prevent damages

Optimize energy trading revenues

With next-day and next-week river flow forecasts, your choice between SPOT, future contract and regulated markets is made easy.

Secure your installation before it’s too late

Mid-term water level forecasts provide you with information on future flood events, giving you time to deploy preventive measures. Flood forecasts are now a reality!

Hedge your investment against droughts

Subscribe to our insurance contract to protect your hydroelectricity generation revenues from prolonged droughts.

River flow and water level forecasts are delivered via an API

Integrate the data with your existing water monitoring systems

Thanks to BWI’s well-documented API, integrating surface water data into your existing websites and hydraulic and hydrologic information systems is smooth.

A highly reliable API

Access the most up-to-date water discharge and water level near real-time estimates and forecasts. 

BWI takes privacy and security matters seriously

The location of your virtual stations as well as your river flow forecasts are kept safe and confidential, and we make sure we implement software security best practices.

Fast and easy deployment

Subscribe online

Select your plan and get started in a matter of minutes as river flow forecasts are a mere additional sensor to plug to your HPP automation system.

Scale on-demand

Adapt BWI subscription to your operations, from 1 to 999 hydropower plants.

Unlimited support

Our customer success team is always here to pick up the phone and answer your questions.

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River discharge forecasts revolutionize hydropower

Efficient energy production 

Optimize energy production with forecasted river flows, maximizing electricity generation at times of peak demand.

Minimized infrastructure damages

Be better prepared for extreme discharge events, reducing repair costs and production downtime.

Optimized water resource management 

Manage reservoir level based on discharge data, ensuring sustainable supply of water.

Increased regulatory compliance

Adapting the operations to discharge conditions, and not exceeding environmental flow regulatory thresholds.

Enhanced energy trading revenues

By utilizing our 10-day forecasts, you can simplify your decision-making process between SPOT, future contracts, and regulated markets.

Get river flow and water level forecasts

BWI specializes in providing near real-time estimates and forecasts of inland surface water bodies around the globe. It combines in-situ data, spaceborne observations, and machine learning to feed and empower hydrological and hydrodynamical models. Through an online, subscription-based service, BWI aims to make scalable – across space and time – hydrological software to address climate change-induced water stress. This value proposition proves particularly useful to the hydropower value chain (hydropower plant operators, energy poolers, energy resellers), who reduce water spills, streamline maintenance, and derive additional profits from electricity markets.

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