The role of hydropower in the EU’s Renewable Energies Policy Hans van Steen (HoU) European Commission, DG Energy, Renewables and CCS
Content: • EU’s policy on renewable energy • What are planned of hydropower towards 2020 in the EU? • Trends in hydropower: • Refurbishment and re-powering of hydropower plants • More flexible operation (pumping)
EU-27 efforts in Renewables BE 2.2% 13% BG 9.4% 16% RES share in 2005 CZ 6.1% 13% 17.0% DK 30% RES share in 2020 DE 5.8% 18% EE 18.0% 25% IE 3.1% 16% EL 6.9% 18% ES 8.7% 20% FR 10.3% 23% IT 5.2% 17% CY 2.9% 13% LV 32.6% 40% LT 15% 23% LU 0.9% 11% HU 4.3% 13% MT 0% 10% NL 2.4% 14% AT 23.3% 34% PL 7.2% 15% PT 20.5% 31% RO 17.8% 24% SI 16% 25% SK 6.7% 14% FI 28.5% 38% SE 39.8% 49% UK 1.3% 15% Based on 2005 starting point, recent progress and a balanced sharing of the effort, weighted by GDP/capita
Hydropower 2010 – 2020 in various Member States Hydro - 2010 Hydropower production Hydro - 2020 80.000 70.000 60.000 50.000 GWh 40.000 30.000 20.000 10.000 0 AT BE BU CY CZ DK EE FI FR DE GR HU IE IT LV LT LU MT NL PT PL RO SK SI ES SE UK
Trends: Hydropower in the EU (NREAPS) • Hydropower is more than 50% of current RES- electricity • Will be around 30% in 2020 • Moderate increase in hydropower (2010 – 2020): • Around 25 TWh (8%) consisting of: 17.5 TWh large hydro (>10 MW) 6.0 TWh medium 1.5 TWh small (<1 MW) BUT: of which 8 TWh is increased pumping 34.8 GW of pumping in 2020 – a 11.4 GW increase
Re-powering and refurbishment of hydropower (1/2) • NREAPs estimate an increase of 8 TWh of pumping • Expected as a response to more variable power production and prices • 2010: 23 TWh of pumping – i.e. increase of 35% (8 TWh) towards 2020 • Part of this will be refurbishment of old installations
Re-powering and refurbishment of hydropower (2/2) • Refurbishment of hydropower plants offers important opportunities: • Increased efficiency of turbines and generators – i.e. more renewable electricity • More flexible operation – more value from each litre of water by producing when prices are the highest • Possible to improve ecological status of the waterbodies Example from Sweden: “Constant Concessions Under Changing Circumstances: the Water and Renewable Energy Directives and Hydropower in Sweden”, Peter M. Rudberg SEI http://sei-international.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/SEI-ProjectReport- Rudberg-ConstantConcessionsUnderChangingCircumstances-2011-2ndEd.pdf
Conclusions • Hydropower is an important source of renewable electricity in the EU today and in the future • Limited increase in total production (25 TWh) towards 2020, but different operation of plants - pumping increases with 8 TWh (35%) • Refurbishment offer important opportunities to combine ecological mitigation and increased hydropower production
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