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Streamflow Modeling in a Highly Managed Mountainous Glacier Watershed Using SWAT: The Upper Rhone River Watershed Case in Switzerland

Rahman, Kazi ; Maringanti, Chetan ; Beniston, Martin ; Widmer, Florian ; Abbaspour, Karim ; Lehmann, Anthony

In: Water Resources Management, 2013, vol. 27, no. 2, p. 323-339

Resource rent taxation and benchmarking : a new perspective for the Swiss hydropower sector

Banfi, Silvia ; Filippini, Massimo ; Svizzera

The electricity generation in Switzerland is mainly based on hydropower (55% of total production). The exploitation of water in the hydropower sector can generate significant so-called resource rents. These are defined by the surplus return above the value of capital, labor, materials and energy used to exploit hydropower. In Switzerland, hydropower producers pay to the State a fixed fee per...