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Small-scale hydropower: A methodology to estimate Europe’s environmentally compatible potential
ETC/ACC Technical Paper 2010/17

Released: 2011/02/28: See the report

Abstract:
The objective of this study is to outline a ‘roadmap’ for the development of a methodology for estimating the Small Scale Hydropower (SHP) technical and environmentally compatible potential SHP for the European Union plus the five other European countries which fall within the EEA’s remit. The main data source for this development is the EEA’s European Catchments and RIvers Network System (ECRINS) suite of Microsoft Access geo-databases. The methodology tested to investigate how this could be delivered had the following sequential stages: Evaluate Theoretical Potential, Evaluate Technical Potential and Evaluate Environmentally Compatible Potential. (Earlier work also described a further level of assessment: Realisable Potential. This has not been tested in this work due to the limitations in defining the earlier sequential stages.)

Prepared by: James Craig, Mike Landy, Steve Conchie, Ben Sang of ETC/ACC partner AEA Technology, UK.

Published by: ETC/ACC, January 2011, 40 pp.