Climate Change Impacts on Hydropower Management

Gaudard, Ludovic ; Gilli, Manfred ; Romerio, Franco

In: Water Resources Management, 2013, vol. 27, no. 15, p. 5143-5156

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    Summary
    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