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Climate Change Impacts on Hydropower Management

Published inWater resources management, vol. 27, p. 5143-5156
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  • Open Access - Licence nationale Springer
Publication date2013
Abstract

Climate change affects hydropower production by modifying total annual inflow volumes and their seasonal distribution. Moreover, increasing air temperatures impact electricity consumption and, as a consequence, electricity prices. All together, these phenomena may lead to a loss in revenue. We show that an adequate management of hydropower plants mitigates these losses. These results are obtained by resorting to an interdisciplinary approach integrating hydrology, economy and hydropower management in an interdependent quantitative model.

Keywords
  • Climate change
  • Hydropower management
  • Electricity market
  • Switzerland
Funding
  • Swiss National Science Foundation - Swiss National project 61
Citation (ISO format)
GAUDARD, Ludovic, GILLI, Manfred, ROMERIO-GIUDICI, Franco. Climate Change Impacts on Hydropower Management. In: Water resources management, 2013, vol. 27, p. 5143–5156. doi: 10.1007/s11269-013-0458-1
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Additional URL for this publicationhttp://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11269-013-0458-1
Journal ISSN0920-4741
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