SFX Get it!(opens in a new window)|Full Text(opens in a new window)| Export | Download | Add to List | More... Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 1: Climate Change and Engineering Geology 1 January 2015, Pages 8-12 Climate change and the mountain environment: Assessing climate impacts on hydropower production of toce alpine basin (Book Chapter) Ravazzani, G.a , Dalla Valle, F.b, Mendlik, T.c, Galeati, G.b, Gobiet, A.c, Mancini, M.a a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico Di Milano, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, Milan, Italy b Divisione Generazione Ed Energia Management, ENEL S.p.A, Via Torino 105/E, Mestre, Italy c Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change and Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria View additional affiliations View references (10) Abstract The aim of the presented study is to assess the impacts of climate change on hydropower production of the Toce alpine river basin, in Italy. A model of the hydropower system was driven by discharge time series at hourly scale with the simulation goal of defining the reservoirs management rule that maximize the economic value of the hydropower production. To this purpose, current energy price was assumed for the future. Assessment of hydropower production of future climate (2041–2050) respect to current climate (2001–2010) showed an increment of production in Autumn, Winter and Spring, and a reduction in June and July. Significant change in the reservoirs management policy is expected due to anticipation of the date when the maximum volume of stored water has to be reached and an increase of reservoir drawdown during August and September to prepare storage capacity for autumn inflows
Assessing climate impacts on hydropower production of toce alpine basin
RAVAZZANI, GIOVANNI;MANCINI, MARCO
2015-01-01
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SFX Get it!(opens in a new window)|Full Text(opens in a new window)| Export | Download | Add to List | More... Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 1: Climate Change and Engineering Geology 1 January 2015, Pages 8-12 Climate change and the mountain environment: Assessing climate impacts on hydropower production of toce alpine basin (Book Chapter) Ravazzani, G.a , Dalla Valle, F.b, Mendlik, T.c, Galeati, G.b, Gobiet, A.c, Mancini, M.a a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico Di Milano, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, Milan, Italy b Divisione Generazione Ed Energia Management, ENEL S.p.A, Via Torino 105/E, Mestre, Italy c Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change and Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria View additional affiliations View references (10) Abstract The aim of the presented study is to assess the impacts of climate change on hydropower production of the Toce alpine river basin, in Italy. A model of the hydropower system was driven by discharge time series at hourly scale with the simulation goal of defining the reservoirs management rule that maximize the economic value of the hydropower production. To this purpose, current energy price was assumed for the future. Assessment of hydropower production of future climate (2041–2050) respect to current climate (2001–2010) showed an increment of production in Autumn, Winter and Spring, and a reduction in June and July. Significant change in the reservoirs management policy is expected due to anticipation of the date when the maximum volume of stored water has to be reached and an increase of reservoir drawdown during August and September to prepare storage capacity for autumn inflowsI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
