Recommendations for developing cantonal conservation and exploitation strategies for small hydropower plants

Cover Recommendations for developing cantonal conservation and exploitation strategies for small hydropower plants
Year 2011
Pages 28
Number UD-1037-E
Publisher Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE)
Series Environmental miscellanea

The cost-covering feed-in remuneration for electricity from renewable sources has stimulated numerous projects for small hydropower plants in Switzerland which must be assessed in terms of electricity generation, water protection and landscape conservation. These implementation recommendations are intended to support the cantons in this task. They contain ecological, energetic and economic criteria which should be considered when balancing the conservation and exploitation interests.


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