Sara Gollessi APER (Association of Producers of Energy from Renewables)
The situation in Italy…. CURRENT CHALLENGES FACING HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE Brussels 1-2 october 2009
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
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)
Sources: - Regional water protection plans - river basin authorities studies and assessments
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 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!
Hydropower in Italy Installed capacity (2007 & 2008) Hydropower
Total renewables
Production (2007 & 2008)
Hydropower Total renewables
Renewables production trend
PV
wind
biomass
geothermal
hydro
total
Distribution of HP production Po river basin district
Year 2008 – source GSE
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 natural artificial HM
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 longitudinal structures to allow fish migration
Sediment management scale
quite
and
programmes at regional
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!!
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