CURRENT CHALLENGES FACING HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE

Brussels 1-2 october 2009

Sara Gollessi APER (Association of Producers of Energy from Renewables)

The situation in Italy….

HYDRorPOWER?

Assessment, at river basin level, of possible hydropower productivity with reference to objectives and targets set by WFD and RES-e Directives

www.esha.be/sherpa

WFD transposition in Italy

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:

Sources:- Regional water protection plans- river basin authorities studies and assessments

30/06/09 RBMP drafts (WFD: 2008) public consultation (WFD: 2006) 22/12/09 RBMP approval (WFD: 2009)

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)

SHORT TIME !!

The role of the Ministry of environment….

RES Directive transposition(Directive 2009/28/CE)

Law 27/02/09 n. 13 (art. 8bis) BURDEN SHARINGWithin 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) POTENTIALThe 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!

Hydropower in ItalyInstalled capacity (2007 & 2008)

Total renewables

Hydropower

Production (2007 & 2008)

Hydropower

Total renewables

Renewables production trend

PV wind biomass geothermal hydro total

Distribution of HP production

Year 2008 – source GSE

Po river basin district

PO river basin

- Lenght of 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 artificial reservoirs

Industrial concentration

Morphological alterations

Ecological status

bad

good

Pollution

bad

good

Natural, articifial and HM

HM

artificial

natural

Present status

Ecological status: objectives

Chemical status: objectives

Natural water bodies (rivers)

HMWB (rivers)

Artificial water bodies (rivers)

Measures Improving the efficiency of the existing HP plants through experimental operational procedures

Review of 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

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!!

Thanks for your kind attention

For more information:gollessi@aper.it