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CURRENT CHALLENGES FACING HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE

Sara Gollessi APER (Association of Producers of Energy from Renewables). CURRENT CHALLENGES FACING HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE. The situation in Italy…. Brussels 1-2 october 2009. HYDRorPOWER?. www.esha.be/sherpa.

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CURRENT CHALLENGES FACING HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE

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  1. Sara Gollessi APER (Association of Producers of Energy from Renewables) CURRENT CHALLENGES FACING HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE The situation in Italy…. Brussels 1-2 october 2009

  2. HYDRorPOWER? www.esha.be/sherpa Assessment, at river basin level, of possible hydropower productivity with reference to objectives and targets set by WFD and RES-e Directives

  3. WFD transposition in Italy Great delay in the transposition and consequently implementation of the WFD  3 infraction procedures (failure to transpose the directive, failure to fulfil obligations under art. 3, failure to fulfil the obligations under art. 5.1 and 15.2) • Legislative Decree 152/2006 OFFICIAL TRANSPOSITION • Law 27/02/2009 n. 13  temporary extension of “old” River Basin Authorities,until the “new” district authorities will be fully operative and setting of deadlines: • 30/06/09 RBMP drafts (WFD: 2008) • public consultation (WFD: 2006) • 22/12/09 RBMP approval (WFD: 2009) SHORT TIME !! • Sources: • Regional water protection plans • river basin authorities studies and assessments

  4. The role of the Ministry of environment….

  5. RES Directive transposition (Directive 2009/28/CE) • Law 27/02/09 n. 13 (art. 8bis)  BURDEN SHARING • Within 90 days the Ministry of Economy will set the sharing among the Regions of the national target for 2020 • June 2009: extension of the deadline  other 2 months! • Law 23/07/09 n. 99 (art. 27, c.16)  POTENTIAL • The Ministry of Economy will set common criteria and procedures to assess the renewable potential and the available resources. • Still waiting for the “Community Law”  OFFICIAL TRANSPOSITION of the Directive 30/06/2010 deadline for delivery of ACTION PLANS!

  6. Hydropower in Italy Installed capacity (2007 & 2008) Hydropower Total renewables Production (2007 & 2008) Hydropower Total renewables

  7. Renewables production trend PV wind biomass hydro total geothermal

  8. Distribution of HP production Po riverbasindistrict Year 2008 – source GSE

  9. PO river basin • Lenghtof the river: 657 Km • Catchment area: 74.000 km2 • 1586 rivers(1522 natural and 64 HM) • 96 lakes(13 natural and 54 HM) •  900 HP plants •  50% of total installed capacity •  180 artificialreservoirs

  10. Industrial concentration

  11. Morphological alterations

  12. Ecological status bad good

  13. Pollution bad good

  14. Natural, articifial and HM natural artificial HM

  15. Present status

  16. Ecological status: objectives

  17. Chemical status: objectives

  18. Natural water bodies (rivers)

  19. HMWB (rivers)

  20. Artificial water bodies (rivers)

  21. Measures • Improving the efficiency of the existing HP plants through experimental operational procedures • Reviewof the concessions in case of water scarcity • Removal or modification of transveral and longitudinal structures to allow fish migration • Sediment management programmes at regional scale • quite general • not linked to a specific environmental context • the economic analysis is still missing

  22. Conclusions • HMWB: the designation of a river as HMWB was specifically caused by the hydropower use only in a few cases • Existing HP plants: even if the majority of the potential is already exploited, the international commitments for the reduction of greenhouse gasses emissions will not allow to impose hard restrictions to the existing concessions. • New HP plants: the big number of new requests for SHP concession seems to be incompatible with the achievement of the WFD objectives. Possible solution  Certification!!

  23. Thanks for your kind attention For more information: gollessi@aper.it

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