JRC-EFAS-Hydropower: European Hydropower Inflow and Generation

Matteo De Felice's dataset provides weekly hydropower inflow for storage plants and daily run-of-river generation across 27 European countries. It is derived from river discharge data from the European Flood Awareness System (EFAS) and the JRC Hydropower Database. The dataset is distributed as a Tabular Data Package with accompanying Python scripts for data extraction.

Use Cases

• Modeling European power system flexibility based on weekly storage plant inflow.
• Analyzing renewable energy generation patterns from daily run-of-river data.
• Assessing climate impacts on hydropower resources using derived river discharge time-series.
• Validating hydrological or energy models against a standardized, cross-national dataset.

Strengths

• Covers 27 European countries, providing a broad spatial scope for analysis.
• Includes two distinct temporal resolutions: weekly inflow and daily generation.
• Derived from authoritative sources: the European Flood Awareness System (EFAS) and the JRC Hydropower Database.
• Provides utility through accompanying Python scripts for data download and processing.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as specific time range, row count, and exact column names are not provided in the available descriptions.
• The dataset's freshness is unknown as no last updated date is specified.
• Relies on inferred data types (tabular, time-series) from descriptions rather than explicit column listings.

Provenance

Source

European Commission (JRC), European Flood Awareness System (EFAS)

Collection Method

Data derived from EFAS river discharge and the JRC Hydropower Database, processed into time-series.

Geography

27 European countries