Darling Hydro Ltd is the hydropower consultancy business of Brian Darling. Brian is a chartered civil engineer with over 35 years’ experience in renewable energy, water, and environment sectors, with 20 of those years being focused on the hydropower industry.
Brian has been involved in leading multi-disciplinary teams in the development of viable hydropower projects. This has involved coordinating many facets to ensure they fit together from a technical, commercial, financial, environmental and social perspective.
• Pumped storage hydropower
• Run-of-river hydropower
• Conventional hydropower with storage
• Retrofitting hydropower to existing assets
• River Engineering
• Dams
• Pipelines
• Water resources, including hydrology
• Groundwater
• Floating solar PV (hydraulic aspects)
- hydrology, water resource modelling and sediment management
- hydraulics, hydraulic modelling and flood assessments
- survey and remote sensing data
- scheme layout and optioneering
- power & energy modelling
- geology and geotechnical aspects
- geotechnical investigation
- seismic assessment
- seepage, groundwater and grouting
- grid integration studies
- cost estimation
- construction planning
- optimisation
- risk analysis
- health and safety considerations
- environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA)
- environmental flow requirements ( e-flows / EWR / EFR )
- fish passes
- financial and economic analysis
- Building Information Modelling (BIM)
- Headworks and intake structures (including raised intakes),
- Dams, coffer dams and flood embankments,
- Spillways and cascades,
- Inlet/outlet structures and associated gates,
- Screens and trash booms,
- Low-pressure and high-pressure tunnels (unlined, concrete lined, steel lined),
- Pressure shafts and surge shafts,
- Main access tunnels, emergency ventilated and cable tunnels and construction adits,
- Power canals (including lining systems) and associated structures,
- Penstocks and pipelines,
- Surface and underground powerhouses,
- Civil aspects of electro-mechanical plant and balance of plant,
- Tailrace tunnels, tailrace channels and associated outlets,
- Balancing storage and re-regulation structures,
- Access roads and associated structures,
- Site enabling works and temporary works,
- Switchyard, power evacuation and transmission lines,
- Local community infrastructure and local community interfacing.
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