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Hydropower production and other river stakeholders requirements: How to manage with SHARE MCA supported by SESAMO and VAPIDRO ASTE software Project final meeting Aosta – Italy, 24th May 2012 Josef Schneider, Christopher Schreiber

SHARE, Final meeting – Aosta – Italy, 24th May 2012

Introduction


• Sustainable hydropower has a major role to play in Europe’s energy future

• It is representing a key infrastructure for economic growth and welfare

• At the local and regional level, hydropower can have an enormous effect on communities and environment

Introduction


• The balancing of conflicting interests and stakeholder involvement is essential

• Significant diversity of hydropower project types and sizes makes it difficult to establish general measures

• To meet the needs, greater understanding of the stakeholder conflict is needed


• A key challenge is to integrate sustainability into the design and management of hydropower projects and to assess the alternatives

SHARE approach


• Water resource management - Sustainability of hydropower infrastructures

• Balance between economic and ecological needs

• To provide a transparent and inclusive process which endeavours to enable any interested party to be involved

SHARE approach and aim


• Data, comments and feedback were collected to adapt SHARE's approach & results to local and national background and to a concrete way of management

• Collaboration and stakeholder participation is the strength of this project

• Promoting and enhancing the dialogue with all stakeholders to increase both the visibility and impact of the project

Identifying decision-makers and stakeholders


• Which stakeholders are considered to be relevant in the investigation areas?

• Main stakeholders affected by hydropower: ► Hydropower producers, operators and developers

► Regional and local authorities

► NGOs, Organizations for environmental protection

► Fishing

► Tourism / Sports

► Interested individuals

► …

Stakeholders needs


• Method ►Tool: Online Questionnaire

►5 Languages: English / French / German / Italian / Slovenian

►Aim: initial assessment and coordination of different inputs and viewpoints received

Evaluation of stakeholders needs


Environmental awareness Scale system for the detection of environmental

awareness (SEU-3), Schahn

Acceptance Scale items Prof. Schweizer-Ries

Active conviction Scale items Prof. Schweizer-Ries

Active action readiness SEU3 & Scale items Prof.

Schweizer-Ries & Experts

interviews

Ecology and Electricity Hydro Power Plants – general

Personal data • Gender

• Age

• Citizenship

• Education

• Stakeholder group

• Contacts to other stakeholder

• Your opinion

Ecological knowledge Self construction items

Energy and power

station knowledge Self construction items

SHQ

Results Questionnaire


• Analysis of the main factors, dependence of the stake holder groups

Permanent Technical Panel


• PTP meetings and workshops ►Several regional and national

meetings in all participating countries

►Discussion about the SHARE tools and active participation of the stakeholders

►Workshops have been broadly advertised in the regions to ensure maximum possibility of representation from a variety of stakeholders

Permanent Technical Panel


• Results ►The exchange with the

stakeholders provided us with valuable feedback on our activities

►Opportunities to contribute to the elaboration of new tools

►Stakeholder dialogues to share experiences hold the potential for innovative solutions

Pilot Case Studies


• SHARE approach and tools have been tested in 11 pilot case studies

• The local PTP is involved in these pilot case studies as both a steering committee and a pool of expert

• The feedback to the SHARE partners is used to improve the tools

Support by software tools


• Software tools developed during the project to support the multicriteria approach:

• Vapidro Aste

• Smart Mini Idro

• Developer and customizer: RSE

VAPIDRO-ASTE is a free GIS tool, developed by RSE (Italy) that

calculates the remaining hydropower potential in a watercourse and the

best locations of future plants, considering the Digital Elevation Model,

the measured flows and the present withdrawals.


Assessment of the remaining hydropower potential in watercourses

Alpine Space Area

Testing detailed area

When creating a new project, the whole map of the Alpine Space is shown.

The user is able to select and area where to work on.

In the frame of the SHARE project, a VAPIDRO-ASTE a customized version

was produced. The version will be delivered including the Digital Elevation

Model of the Alpine Space area:


New project creation

Automatic river generation

VAPIDRO-ASTE is able to create

automatically the river network, departing

from the Digital Elevation Model and the

density factor


Area selection, sub-basin computation

Power (kW)

Structural lenght

It is possible to view the discharge, energy and power tables an charts in reference to the selected river. The “x” axis is the progressive distance measured from the closure.

Energy (kWh/year)


Installable power and energy

VAPIDRO ASTE is able to visualize the results on GIS, as a map with a coloured scale (heads, energy and power, cost, benefits, financial parameters)

Installable Power (kW)


Installable power in a GIS map

VAPIDRO Hydropower Optimization Tool: tables and charts


Hydropower Exploitation

Intake

Powerhouse

VAPIDRO Hydropower Optimization Tool: plants in the Map

Intake

Powerhouse

Intake

Powerhouse

Intake

Powerhouse

Intake

Powerhouse


Hydropower Exploitation

• SMART Mini-Idro is a tool for technical and economical evaluation of mini hydro power plants

• Evaluates the energy production, benefits and financial aspects

• Supports the pre-feasibility project analysis

• Used in the frame of the SHARE project


SMART Mini-Idro

SMART Mini-Idro allows the input of the flow duration curve and considers the minimum environmental flow. Calculates the Power duration curve as function of the efficiencies and types of the selected turbine.


SMART Mini-Idro

SMART Mini-Idro calculates the costs of the plant based on correlation curves, the income from the sale of energy produced and the financial parameters:


SMART Mini-Idro

MCA

Integration of the software tools in SHARE`s MCA


Vapidro-Aste

SMART Mini-Idro

Questionnaire

Criteria Alternative 1 Alternative 2 Alternative x PTP/Stakeholder

Distribution of software tools


• Online seminars occurred regularly, depending on the evolution of SHARE's results

• PTP members can learn how to use the SHARE tools via tutorials, examples and trainings

• The stakeholder assessed the tools' efficiency and reliability

Communication tools


• SHARE has a very informative web presentation which is used to communicate with all interested stakeholders: http://www.share-alpinerivers.eu/

• It is regularly updated and all news in relation to the project can be found there

http://www.share-alpinerivers.eu/




Stakeholders involvement


• To obtain detailed feedback from a diversity of views on the content and applicability of the “SHARE-approach”

• To ensure that the final tools and reports of SHARE are credible and useful to stakeholders

• To ensure that stakeholders understand how they can get involved and feel that their involvement is meaningful and has the potential to make a difference

Dissemination of best practices


• To promote existing best practise examples from different countries participating in the SHARE project and their transfer to other regions

• Reports with description of best practices with examples and references: Handbook, technical reports (for example: MIF (minimum instream flow) definition and use for hydropower production)

Conclusion


• Increasing awareness of stakeholders for ecological, economic and social aspects

• The willingness of all stakeholders to integrate environmental concerns and economic costs and benefits in the planning process can mitigate negative effects and make hydropower a sustainable way for generating electricity

• The „SHARE approach” helps to make transparent decisions in this process

Thank you!


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