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Session # 6 – November 18, 2010
TODAY’S TOPIC:
Small Hydro Power
(and a Wind Interview)
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Where are we now?
Policy
approachesWind Solar PV Funding
Solar
Thermal
SHP & Wind
Interview
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What we will cover
• History and Basics of Small Hydropower
• Main turbine types and applications
• The Renaissance of Small Hydro/Potential
• Going back to Wind: Interview with Nico Köllner
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Your visiting scholar today:Your visiting scholar today:
Nico Köllner, E.ON Climate & Renewables
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• Definition of Small Hydro
• Centuries of Hydropower use
• From small turbine applications to large hydro
• Main types of systems used
1 The Basics of Small Hydropower
Our Schedule for Today
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• Efficiency and types of turbine systems
• Costs depending on system
• Locations and Environmental Impact
• Potential for Small Hydropower
2 Key Topics in Small Hydropower
Our Schedule for Today
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• The Link to Small Hydropower
• From Turbine Sizes to the Location – key factors
• Future Challenges
3 A look back to Wind Power
Our Schedule for Today
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A Country
Before we start…
B Data C Business
• What is happening in the Forum?
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• The definition of ‘small hydro’ – no standardization
• Upper Limits from 2.5 MW – 30 MW
• Frequently used: 10 MW capacity
• Substantial impact of “small systems”
1 The Basics of Small Hydropower
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• A long mechanical tradition –
at different development stages
• Water turbine development in France / 19th century
• 1880s – larger scale electricity generation
• Early 20th century: development of today’s technology
1 Centuries of traditional use
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1 From small applications to Large Hydro
• A tendency to larger units throughout 20th century
• Particularly 1930s to 1970s
• As with other renewables: renewed interest after oil
crises in the 1970s
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1 Main Types of Systems
• High-head system
• Low-head system
• Supplemental systems
- irrigation
- drinking water supply
- agricultural purposes
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2 Key Topics: Costs
• Main Components for Small-Hydropower
- Engineering Expenditures
- Electrical Equipment / Material used
- Turbine System
• Costs shared very unevenly depending on type of
system used
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2 Key Topics: Costs
• Best Competitiveness
- Good site / location with appropriate topography
- Suitable for system with relatively low investment costs
• Wide range of investment costs and availability of
systems
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2 Key Topics: Environmental Impacts
• Potential impacts of Small Hydropower
- Impact on ground-water level
- Natural habitat
- Fish migration routes
- Water quality issues
- River flow characteristics

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2 Key Topics: Environmental Impacts
• Potential impacts of Small Hydropower
- Cleaning up garbage
- Enhance water quality
- Green regional energy supply

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Source: DEWI, Status der Windenergienutzung in Deutschland, p. 6

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• Discussion with Nico Köllner, E.ON
3 Interview with our expert
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• Development of Turbine Sizes
• Potential for further savings
• Repowering with huge potential?
• Offshore as the future frontier?
• Small decentralized solutions
The big topics in Wind Power
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• Think about a Renewables portfolio for your country
• Which technologies would you recommend?
• Which policy instruments would you use?
...and for next week, please:
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Your visiting scholar next week:
Alexander Saier United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change, Cancun (invited, tbc)
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