Presentation to Hidroenergia 2010 in Lausanne, Switzerland

1. Hydro
The view from the EEA
Hidroenergia
Lausanne, 17th June 2010
Dr. David Clubb
Renewable Energy Project Manager
www.eea.europa.eu

2. • Policy
• Resource/constraints
• Environmental factors

3. • Policy
• Resource/constraints
• Environmental factors
Creative Commons - S. Solberg J.

4. http://timeglider.com/app/viewer.php?uid=eea

5. objective
subjective

6. • Policy
• Resource/constraints
• Environmental factors
Creative Commons – Joshua Cogliati

7. What do others say?
• IEA/ECF – ‘limited
increase’
• EREC - 38%
increase
• PWC/RWE – 30-
100% increase
www.roadmap2050.eu/Volume1_fullreport_PressPack.pdf
www.erec.org/fileadmin/erec_docs/Documents/Publications/ReThinking2050_full%20version_final.pdf
www.pwc.co.uk/pdf/100_percent_renewable_electricity.pdf

8. EEA study
• Technical potential
• Environmental potential
• Carried out by AEA
Creative Commons – Felix Andrews

9. ECRINS database

11. Example of ECRINS extract from Pyrenees
• Selected catchment
highlighted.
• Nodes with elevation
& mean flow
• Dams

12. Example of catchment data extract

13. Assumptions (technical potential)
• Qmean and head can be extracted
• Water to wire efficiency 70%
• Q0 = 75%; CF 50%
• O&M 1-2% (ESHA)
• Capital costs (ESHA):
(€/kW Installed)
France 1,850 – 4,000
Spain 1,000 – 1,500

14. ……assumptions (technical)
• 20 year life span
• 10% discount rate
• Discounted cash flow analysis for each site

15. Assumptions (environmental potential)
• Q0=33%
• Reduces potential by 40%

16. Limitations
• Proximity to grid
• Mean flow used
• Costs based on a range (site-specific)
Creative Commons – VargaA

17. Improvements
• Link road/grid databases with ECRINS
• Use multiple years for better mean flow
• Refine capital and mitigation costs
• Verify with real examples
Creative Commons – Dale Klamuella

18. • Policy
• Resource/constraints
• Environmental factors
Creative Commons – Tom Bishop

19. Environmental factors
•Hydrological character
•Connectivity within system
•Solid material and morphology
•Landscape and biotopes
•Biocoenoses
Creative Commons – Richard Haworth
http://homepages.eawag.ch/~wehrli/papers/Bratrich_GreenHydro_RiverRes_04.pdf

20. Comparative effects
http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/env/biodiversity_climate/library?l=/contract_biodiversity/report_task_4pdf/_EN_1.0_&a=d

21. Innovation
Innovation is a change in the thought
process for doing something
It may refer to an incremental emergent or
radical and revolutionary changes in
thinking, products, processes, or
organisations.

22. http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/env/biodiversity_climate/library?l=/contract_biodiversity/report_task_4pdf/_EN_1.0_&a=d

23. Conclusions
• Restricted technical potential
• Focus on adapting business model
• Article 4.7 is sacrosanct
Creative Commons – Richard Haworth

24. David Clubb
www.eea.europa.eu
david.clubb@eea.europa.eu