Hydro Power Operation and Economic

Performance in a Changing Market

Environment (HP-Future)

Who is this guy?

Smart Infrastructures

HP-Future

• HP is important

– Approx. 60% of Swiss Energy comes from HP

– The Energy Strategy 2050 expects an increase in HP production

– BUT:

• Average price to produce electric power 5 rp. per kWh

• Price level to sell electric power 3 rp per kWh

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans…

A cycle or a shift?

CH the Battery of EU?

HP now and then

Hydro Power Operation and Economic Performance in a

Changing Market Environment

• Facts:

– SNSF project in the NRP 70 “Energy transition”

• Volume approx. 1,2 Mio CHF

• Start 10/14

• Duration 3,5 years

– Associated to

• More Facts:

How is involved:

Structure:

WP 1: HP-Operations

• Partner: HES-SO + Uni Bas

Role of HES-SO

• Model optimal market response behavior

• Model configuration

– On the fly configuration of the mathematical models

Code that creates Models

What means integrated?

• Covering the fields

– Short term operation

– Long term investments

– Social Acceptance / Regional Impact

– Sharing the case studies:

• Lago Bianco, Valposchiavo (GR) (WP-3 only)

• Alpiq HP Plant VS (all together)

• Leventina (TI) (all together)

Project structure

The 1st workshop 12.3

Workshop: The Future of Swiss Hydropower

Bern,12.03.2015

SchweizerischerNationalfonds(SNF)

Wildhainweg3,Plenum21,Gebäude21

Program

09:15 Registration and Coffee 09:45 Welcome, Int roduct ion and Goals for the Day

10:00 The Future of HP – A Central European Perspect ive Christian von Hirschhausen (TU Berlin/DIW Berlin)

10:45 The Future of HP – A Scandinavian Perspect ive

Atle Midttun (BI Norwegian Business School)

11:30 Break 11:45 The Future of Swiss HP – Relevant Drivers and Factors

Results and Insights from the Questionnaire

12:30 Lunch 13:30 Panel Discussion: HP-Challenges in the Short -Run

14:30 Break 14:45 Panel Discussion: HP-Challenges in the Long-Run

15:45 Discussion – Summary – Next Steps

16:15 End of Workshop

TheWorkshopisfreeofcharge.

PleaseregisterwithDr.PatrickBaur(patrick.baur@htwchur.ch)

Participantsare invited to fill out the Questionnaire on the Future ofSwiss Hydropower (Link

follows)

Formoreinformationontheproject‘HPFuture’pleasevisit:

https://fonew.unibas.ch/forschungprojekte/projekte/hp-future/

HP Needs & Drivers

• Questionnaire & Discussions at the Workshop

50 questions, filled out by people register for the workshop

Business/Industry 16 Parliament/Council 0 NGO 1 Administration (federal, cantonal) 3 University/Research Institute 12 Other 3

Next steps

• Report of the WS (all)

• Work in all WPs

• Beginning of the first joined case study in VS (second half of 2015).

• Interested? Please talk to me!