PSR has an extensive experience in studies related to water resources and environment. The multidisciplinary characteristic of our team contributes to a comprehensive in-depth approach. These studies have been prepared for investors, government and multilateral agencies, electricity trading companies, regulatory agencies, watershed committees and universities/research centres.
Water Resources
PSR's activities in Water Resources area include:
- Elaboration of Water Resources Master Plans
- Hydroelectric Inventory Studies in Brazil (following ANEEL guidelines) and abroad, through our first-assessment ("pre-inventory") approach based on the computational model HERA and public databases, such as NASA's SRTM for topography
- Modeling
- Water resources
- Hydrodynamic models (water quality, sediment transportation, etc.)
- Hydrological modeling (eg. Rainfall to runoff models)
- Impacts of Climate Change in water resources availability and hydropower
- Water-energy nexus
- Evaluation of environmental constraints for the operation of reservoir
- Hydrological/Energetic studies
- Hydrological forecast
- Generation of synthetic inflow scenarios
- Hydroelectric studies for designing of hydropower plants (installed capacity determination)
- Data consistency analysis
- Revision of the Physical Guarantee of Small Hydro Plants (Brazil)
- Studies for the determination of water demands