1. 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

2. 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
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3. 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
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4. • A key challenge is to integrate sustainability into the
design and management of hydropower projects
and to assess the alternatives
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. 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
► …
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8. Stakeholders needs
• Method
► Tool: Online Questionnaire
► 5 Languages: English / French / German / Italian /
Slovenian
► Aim: initial assessment and coordination of different
inputs and viewpoints received
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9. Evaluation of stakeholders
needs
Ecology and Electricity Hydro Power Plants – general
Ecological knowledge Acceptance
Self construction items Scale items Prof. Schweizer-Ries
Energy and power Active conviction
station knowledge Scale items Prof. Schweizer-Ries
Self construction items
SHQ Active action readiness
SEU3 & Scale items Prof.
Schweizer-Ries & Experts
interviews
Personal data
• Gender
• Age Environmental awareness
• Citizenship Scale system for the detection of environmental
• Education awareness (SEU-3), Schahn
• Stakeholder group
• Contacts to other stakeholder
• Your opinion
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10. Results Questionnaire
• Analysis of the main factors, dependence
of the stake holder groups
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11. 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
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12. 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
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13. 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
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14. Support by software tools
• Software tools developed during the project to
support the multicriteria approach:
• Vapidro Aste
• Smart Mini Idro
• Developer and customizer: RSE
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15. Assessment of the remaining
hydropower potential in watercourses
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.
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16. New project creation
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:
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.
Testing detailed area
Alpine Space Area
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17. Area selection, sub-basin
computation
VAPIDRO-ASTE is able to create
Automatic river generation automatically the river network, departing
from the Digital Elevation Model and the
density factor
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18. Installable power and energy
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.
Structural lenght
Energy (kWh/year)
Power (kW)
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19. Installable power in a GIS map
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)
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20. Hydropower Exploitation
VAPIDRO Hydropower Optimization Tool: tables and charts
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21. Hydropower Exploitation
VAPIDRO Hydropower Optimization Tool: plants in the Map
Intake
Powerhouse
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22. SMART Mini-Idro
• 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
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23. 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.
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24. 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:
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25. Integration of the software
tools in SHARE`s MCA
SMART Mini-Idro
Vapidro-Aste
Questionnaire
MCA
Alternative 1
Criteria Alternative 2
PTP/Stakeholder Alternative x
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26. 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
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27. 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
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28. 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
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29. 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)
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30. 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
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31. Thank you!
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