Hedi Feibel, PhD

Renewable Energy and Water Expert

Areas of expertise:

  • Renewable Energy, special focus on hydropower
  • Hydrological aspects
  • Sustainable operation and management
  • legal, regulatory, policy and strategic aspects of rural energy projects
Hedis`CV

Hedi Feibel has worked for 25 years on assignments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe with strong focus on mini and small hydropower. As energy specialist and hydrologist, she is committed to knowledge transfer and participatory approaches to build up local know-how for the improvement of living conditions.

Key data

Qualification (Institute) PhD graduation at the Department of Civil Engineering (Hydrology and Water Management) and Department of Political Economy, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

MSc Geography / Hydrology, Institute of Hydrology, University of Freiburg, Germany
Working languages German (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), Spanish (basic), Indonesian (basic)
Years of Experience 25
Nationality German
Country experience and regional expertise Asia: China, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Nepal, Tajikistan, Vietnam

Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Morocco, Rwanda, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia

Europe: Albania,

Caribbean: St. Vincent, Dominica
Select projects, roles, achievements and publications
  • hydrological assessments of hydropower sites and reconnaissance studies combined with training of local experts on site identification, installation of gauging stations and discharge measurements (e.g. in Tanzania, Rwanda, Liberia, Guinea, the Caribbean and Albania)
  • establishment of sustainable institutional set-ups for operation and management of hydropower projects and promotion of productive use of energy in Indonesia (GIZ, 2006-2011) and in Tajikistan (ADB, 2007-2009)
  • analyses of legal, regulatory and policy aspects of rural energy projects e.g. in Ethiopia, Nepal, Tajikistan and Morocco.
  • training of Tunisian experts on hydropower use in the water supply systems (GIZ, 2012)
  • contribution to the hydropower manual “Good and Bad of Mini Hydropower” Manual (ACE, AGMHP 2009)
  • Occasional lecturer at Zürich University of Applied Sciences, Zürich and University of Freiburg, Germany (“Hydrological aspects in hydropower planning”)
Key clients
  • Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
  • Asian Development Bank (ADB)
  • African Development Bank (AfDB)
  • ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE)
  • Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation SDC
  • Swiss State Secretariat SECO
  • Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE)
  • KfW Bankengruppe
  • Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation
  • Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
  • United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  • Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
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