EDF Hydro Engineering Centre: Supporting you with the successful completion of your hydro projects in the Americas

Our speciality: Supporting our public and private customers with the successful completion of their hydro projects.

Constantly aiming for one goal: Enhancing the performance and safety of your facilities in the Americas in accordance with environmental legislation.

For more than 70 years, our hydro engineering experts have been supporting the EDF Hydro fleet in France. This expertise is also being harnessed abroad. Dams, hydropower plants, penstocks, seawalls and pumped-storage plants: we span the entire range of hydro engineering.

We are constantly seeking to innovate and to develop renewable energy sources on the African continent.

EDF Hydro Engineering Centre: customised expertise

Our hydro-engineering expertise is tailored to each of your projects in the Americas.
Advice, surveys and/or design & construction, our engineers and technicians respond whenever and wherever you may need them.
 

SINOP dam (Brazil): Powering 1 600 000 households using hydroelectric energy

Located in northern Brazil, this dam is being built to generate hydroelectric power. The project forms part of the country’s initiatives to develop renewable energy sources.

Our engineers are involved in laying out the hydroelectrical infrastructure for the SINOP dam. Their work comprises 2 key phases:

• A preliminary due-diligence phase
  Some of the areas include: civil, electrical and mechanical design, environmental and social impact, costing, scheduling and construction logistics, Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC).
• Involvement in negotiations for the EPC construction contract
  The project owner is SINOP SPE. The latter is being financed by 3 power companies: Electronorte, CHESF and EDF.

We innovate : two examples