HydrocastAI: More Accurate Inflow and Generation Forecasts for Your Hydropower Plants

Inaccurate inflow and generation forecasts cost hydropower operators real money – through imbalance costs, missed trading opportunities and inefficient dispatch. With HydrocastAI, we at alitiq are currently developing a forecasting service as part of an ESA-funded feasibility study that tackles exactly this problem. 🛰️

What is HydrocastAI?

HydrocastAI combines satellite data, radar measurements, numerical weather models and local hydrological data into hourly inflow and generation forecasts for the next 24 to 96 hours – significantly more accurate than what is possible today with manual or purely statistical methods.

Your Benefit as a Hydropower Operator

HydrocastAI delivers hourly forecasts tailored to your portfolio that integrate directly into existing processes:

• Trading & dispatch: a more reliable basis for day-ahead and intraday decisions
• Lower imbalance costs: through noticeably reduced forecast errors
• Early warning: timely alerts on critical inflow or flood peaks, so you can protect your assets and adjust operations

Where We Stand Today

Our model has made the leap from pure simulation to real forecasting and is currently being tested across all sites and the full dataset. In parallel, we are preparing the documentation for the ESA final review at the end of October. The crucial next step: market validation with you – so that HydrocastAI is developed precisely around the needs of the hydropower industry.

This Is Why We Need You!

To make sure HydrocastAI truly meets the needs of the hydropower industry, we need feedback from practice. With a short survey, we would like to learn about your motivation and your concrete requirements.

👉 HydrocastAI – Questions for Hydropower Plant Operators – Fill in the Form – You can select your preferred language (German or English) directly there.

We appreciate every piece of feedback – it flows directly into the further development of HydrocastAI. 🙌