Latest revision as of 18:44, 13 March 2017

This page grew out of the Hydro Modelling Breakout Group at the 3rd openmod workshop in London, 2015.

[edit] Introduction

Hydroelectricity is still the dominant source of renewable electricity in many countries (around 17% share of European electricity, if you include Norway and Switzerland).

Technically it can be very flexible and smooth out variable production of wind and solar, so for future scenarios with high RES, it’s important to get right.

For market models hydro dispatch strategy can have a big influence on market prices (e.g. in the Alps and Scandinavia), which is hard to capture.

There are different types of hydroelectric plants:

Run-of-river plants with little storage
Storage dams with inflow
Pumped storage
Mixed variants (e.g. storage dams with inflow and pumping)

Hydroelectricity modelling is complicated by several factors:

Although it has low marginal cost, the storage allows dispatch to be time-shifted, which makes optimal dispatch strategies complicated
Plants on rivers can be chained, so that the inflow depends on the output of power plants upstream
Hydro inflow varies year-by-year (e.g. there are dry and wet years in Scandinavia)
Modelling inflow from weather data is non-trivial: need to model precipitation, runoff, evaporation, snow melt, etc.
Water in reservoirs is tapped for other purposes, e.g. irrigation.
There are other constraints, such as maintaining navigability on rivers, fish ladders, water levels for recreation, water cooling for thermal power plants, etc.

[edit] Hydroelectric modelling

In a linear programming setup, hydroelectric dams can be modelled as storage units with state of charge limits, set inflow, controllable spillage and optional pumping.

The chaining of run-of-river plants, multiple turbines fed from the same reservoir, can all be modelled too.

More detail can be found in books such as

A. J. Wood, B. F. Wollenberg, and G. B. Sheblé, "Power Generation, Operation and Control," New York: John Wiley & Sons, Third Edition, 2014.

[edit] Hydroelectric Models

r.green.hydro

Who: Eurac Research, Bolzano
What: Takes discharge raster map of river and computes hydropower potential considering different limits (e.g. theoretical, recommended, legal, technical, ecological and economic constraints)

Simple_hydropower_model

Who: James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen
What: Estimates the potential impacts of climate change on Scotland's run-of-river hydropower potential

OSeMOSYS

Who: OSeMOSYS community
What: in energy modelling it takes into account hydro power plants, hydro storage and cascade
Missing: modelling of floods; Evapo-transpiration losses in dams

[edit] Discharge Models

WEAPWater Evaluation and Planning

Who: Stockholm Environment Institute

What: Tool for water ressource planning

HYPE

Who: Swedish Metereological and Hydrological Institute
What: Water ressource modeling
Water losses by evaporation

TOPKAPI-ETH

Who: ETH Zurich
What: High resolution, distributed, physically-based hydrological model (purpose: find optimized policies for reservoirs management)

[edit] Hydroelectric power plant static data

[edit] Desired data for power plants

Plant type (run of river, pumped storage, storage dam)
Dispatch capacity (MW)
Pumping capacity (if present) (MW)
Storage capacity (litres or MWh)
(head) Height of reservoir (m)
Type of inflow
Inflow time series
Legal restrictions on flow levels (maintaining enough water for nature)
minimal reservoir level
(black start reserves - capacity reserves)
Pumped storage efficiency
Chaining run-of-river
Some reservoirs have several outlets

[edit] Global datasets

[edit] Wikipedia list of hydro stations > 1000 MW

List of conventional hydroelectric power stations

List of largest hydroelectric power stations

[edit] Wikipedia list of pumped hydro stations > 1000 MW

Wikipedia List of pumped storage hydro stations (greater than 1000 MW)

[edit] European datasets

[edit] ENTSO-E per country capacities

https://www.entsoe.eu/db-query/miscellaneous/net-generating-capacity has hydro capacities for each country for each year. For some years (e.g. 2010) they are also split by 'storage', 'run of river' and 'pumped storage'.

2013 Yearly Statistics and Adequacy Retrospect: Capacities are split per country per month of 2013 for Hydro renewable/non-renewable. Non-renewable here means pumped storage.

The ENTSO-E Transparency Platform has data but crashes all the time.

[edit] Eurelectric statistics

http://www.eurelectric.org/powerstats2013/

http://www.eurelectric.org/hydro-factsheets

[edit] Renpass for Norway and Germany

https://github.com/fraukewiese/renpass/tree/master/databases

SQL database of hydroelectric power plants (storage and run of river) in Norway and Germany. See the manual for explanations how data is ordered.

[edit] Swiss data

Swiss Federal Office of Energy: Yearly Hydropower statistic for Switzerland:

http://www.bfe.admin.ch/themen/00490/00491/index.html?lang=en&dossier_id=01049

Geographic information on Hydropower in Switzerland:

http://www.bfe-gis.admin.ch/storymaps/WK_WASTA/index.php?lang=de

Swiss Federal Office of Environment Runoff data for Switzerland:

http://www.bafu.admin.ch/wasser/13462/13496/15016/index.html?lang=en

[edit] Wikipedia per-country European capacities

Germany

Switzerland (not complete)

[edit] Assessments of existing and potential future pumped hydro power and energy in Europe

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032115007923

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032109002779

[edit] Hydroelectric inflow time series data

[edit] Deriving inflow time series from weather data

Inflow time series and other hydrological data can in principle be derived if precipitation, run-off, temperature for snow melt, transpiration, ground absorption, lakes, reservoirs, ground height and ground slope, and other water uses (irrigation/livestock/households/manufacturing/thermal power stations) are all known.

Drainage basins can be calculated to see where the runoff water goes.

Reanalysis datasets such as the CFSR contain data on runoff, precipitable water, precipitation rate.

See a comparison of hydrological models from 2011.

[edit] Global datasets

[edit] Global Runoff Data Centre

The Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) has measured daily average discharge data for 7362 measurement stations worldwide.

Used in Yvonne Scholz PhD thesis, 2012.

[edit] WaterGAP

WaterGAP (Water Global Assessment and Prognosis) is a global fresh water resource model, which models both hydrology and the usage of water in five sectors (irrigation, livestock, households, manufacturing and cooling of thermal power plants).

All computations are done with a temporal resolution of 1 day and a spatial resolution of 0.5° geographical latitude × 0.5° geographical longitude, which is equivalent to 55 km × 55 km at the equator.

Currently the years 1901 to 2010 are covered; more recent years will be updated soon (as of 2016).

River discharge is available for run-of-river power plants and inflow to storage reservoirs.

The model has been developed by University of Kassel (Germany) since 1996, and since 2003 also at the University of Frankfurt (Germany).

The model output is calibrated and validated against long term annual river discharge from the GRDC Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC), among other sources.

The most recent paper describing the model (esp. in the appendix) is Müller Schmied, H., Eisner, S., Franz, D., Wattenbach, M., Portmann, F. T., Flörke, M., and Döll, P.: "Sensitivity of simulated global-scale freshwater fluxes and storages to input data, hydrological model structure, human water use and calibration," Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 3511-3538, doi:10.5194/hess-18-3511-2014, 2014.

The source code is not free software, nor is it available for download.

Datasets are available on request to researchers.

Wikipedia: WaterGAP

WaterGAP

https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/45218063/WaterGAP

http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/external/input-data-to-watergap-model-4

Used in Gregor Czisch PhD thesis, 2006 and in The impact of global change on the hydropower potential of Europe: a model-based analysis, 2005.

[edit] European datasets

@@ Line 36: / Line 36: @@
 A. J. Wood, B. F. Wollenberg, and G. B. Sheblé, "Power Generation, Operation and Control," New York: John Wiley & Sons, Third Edition, 2014.
-<br/>
+==== Hydroelectric Models ====
+[https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/addons/r.green.hydro.html r.green.hydro]
+<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">Who: Eurac Research, Bolzano</span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">What: Takes discharge raster map of river and computes hydropower potential considering different limits (e.g. theoretical, recommended, legal, technical, ecological and economic constraints)</span></li>
+</ul>
+[https://github.com/JamesSample/simple_hydropower_model Simple_hydropower_model]
+<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">Who: James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen</span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">What: Estimates the potential impacts of climate change on Scotland's run-of-river hydropower potential</span></li>
+</ul>
+[http://www.osemosys.org/ OSeMOSYS]<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline"></span><br/>
+<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">Who: <span id="docs-internal-guid-58165322-42e9-9cb0-b057-5ba305f24f04" style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">OSeMOSYS community</span></span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">What: in energy modelling it takes into account hydro power plants, hydro storage and cascade</span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">Missing: modelling of floods; Evapo-transpiration losses in dams</span></li>
+</ul>
+==== Discharge Models ====
+[http://www.weap21.org/ WEAP]<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">Water Evaluation and Planning</span>
+<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">Who: Stockholm Environment Institute</span></li>
+</ul>
+<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">What: Tool for water ressource planning</span></li>
+</ul>
+[http://hypecode.smhi.se/ HYPE]
+<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">Who: Swedish Metereological and Hydrological Institute</span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">What: Water ressource modeling</span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">Water losses by evaporation</span></li>
+</ul>
+[http://www.progea.net/prodotti.php?p=TOPKAPI&lin=inglese TOPKAPI-ETH]
+<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">Who: ETH Zurich</span></li>
+<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;  font-family:Arial;  color:#000000;  background-color:transparent;  font-weight:400;  font-style:normal;  font-variant:normal;  text-decoration:none;  vertical-align:baseline">What: High resolution, distributed, physically-based hydrological model (purpose: find optimized policies for reservoirs management)</span></li>
+</ul>
 = Hydroelectric power plant static data =
@@ Line 50: / Line 92: @@
 *Inflow time series
 *Legal restrictions on flow levels (maintaining enough water for nature)
-*minimal resevoir level
+*minimal reservoir level
 *(black start reserves - capacity reserves)
 *Pumped storage efficiency
@@ Line 60: / Line 102: @@
 == Global datasets ==
-=== Wikipedia list of hydro stations > 2000 MW ===
+=== Wikipedia list of hydro stations > 1000 MW ===
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conventional_hydroelectric_power_stations List of conventional hydroelectric power stations]
 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hydroelectric_power_stations List of largest hydroelectric power stations]
@@ Line 68: / Line 112: @@
 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pumped-storage_hydroelectric_power_stations Wikipedia List of pumped storage hydro stations] (greater than 1000 MW)
+<br/><br/>
-<br/>
 == European datasets ==
+=== ENTSO-E per country capacities ===
+[https://www.entsoe.eu/db-query/miscellaneous/net-generating-capacity https://www.entsoe.eu/db-query/miscellaneous/net-generating-capacity] has hydro capacities for each country for each year. For some years (e.g. 2010) they are also split by 'storage', 'run of river' and 'pumped storage'.
+[https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/statistics/yearly-statistics-and-adequacy-retrospect/Pages/default.aspx 2013 Yearly Statistics and Adequacy Retrospect]: Capacities are split per country per month of 2013 for Hydro renewable/non-renewable. Non-renewable here means pumped storage.
+The [https://transparency.entsoe.eu/ ENTSO-E Transparency Platform] has data but crashes all the time.
+<br/>
 === Eurelectric statistics ===
@@ Line 78: / Line 131: @@
 [http://www.eurelectric.org/hydro-factsheets http://www.eurelectric.org/hydro-factsheets]
 === Renpass for Norway and Germany ===
-[http://renpass.eu/files/public-docs/renpass_installation/ http://renpass.eu/files/public-docs/renpass_installation/]
+https://github.com/fraukewiese/renpass/tree/master/databases
-SQL database of hydroelectric power plants (storage and run of river) in Norway and Germany.
+SQL database of hydroelectric power plants (storage and run of river) in Norway and Germany. See the manual for explanations how data is ordered.
 <br/>
 === Swiss data ===
@@ Line 101: / Line 156: @@
 [http://www.bafu.admin.ch/wasser/13462/13496/15016/index.html?lang=en http://www.bafu.admin.ch/wasser/13462/13496/15016/index.html?lang=en]
+<br/>
 === Wikipedia per-country European capacities ===
@@ Line 108: / Line 164: @@
 [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Wasserkraftwerken_in_der_Schweiz Switzerland] (not complete)
+=== Assessments of existing and potential future pumped hydro power and energy in Europe ===
+[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032115007923 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032115007923]
+[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032109002779 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032109002779]
 = Hydroelectric inflow time series data =
-== Deriving time series from weather data ==
+== Deriving inflow time series from weather data ==
-Inflow time series can in principle be derived if precipitation, run-off, temperature for snow melt, transpiration, ground height and orientation, and other water uses are all known.
+Inflow time series and other hydrological data can in principle be derived if precipitation, run-off, temperature for snow melt, transpiration, ground absorption, lakes, reservoirs, ground height and ground slope, and other water uses (irrigation/livestock/households/manufacturing/thermal power stations) are all known.
+Drainage basins can be calculated to see where the runoff water goes.
 Reanalysis datasets such as the [http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds094.1/ CFSR] contain data on runoff, precipitable water, precipitation rate.
+See a [http://www.eu-watch.org/ comparison of hydrological models] from 2011.
+<br/>
 == Global datasets ==
@@ Line 135: / Line 200: @@
 All computations are done with a temporal resolution of 1 day and a spatial resolution of 0.5° geographical latitude × 0.5° geographical longitude, which is equivalent to 55 km × 55 km at the equator.
-Currently the years 198* to 2010 are covered; more recent years will be updated soon (as of 2016).
+Currently the years 1901 to 2010 are covered; more recent years will be updated soon (as of 2016).
 River discharge is available for run-of-river power plants and inflow to storage reservoirs.
 The model has been developed by University of Kassel (Germany) since 1996, and since 2003 also at the University of Frankfurt (Germany).
+The model output is calibrated and validated against long term annual river discharge from the GRDC [http://www.bafg.de/GRDC/EN/Home/homepage_node.html Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC)], among other sources.
+The most recent paper describing the model (esp. in the appendix) is Müller Schmied, H., Eisner, S., Franz, D., Wattenbach, M., Portmann, F. T., Flörke, M., and Döll, P.: "Sensitivity of simulated global-scale freshwater fluxes and storages to input data, hydrological model structure, human water use and calibration," Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 3511-3538, [http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/18/3511/2014/hess-18-3511-2014.html doi:10.5194/hess-18-3511-2014], 2014.
+The source code is not free software, nor is it available for download.
+Datasets are available on request to researchers.
 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaterGAP Wikipedia: WaterGAP]
-[http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/external/input-data-to-watergap-model-4 http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/external/input-data-to-watergap-model-4]
+[http://watergap.de/ WaterGAP]
 [https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/45218063/WaterGAP https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/45218063/WaterGAP]
-Used in [https://kobra.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/bitstream/urn:nbn:de:hebis:34-200604119596/1/DissVersion0502.pdf Gregor Czisch PhD thesis], 2006.
+[http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/external/input-data-to-watergap-model-4 http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/external/input-data-to-watergap-model-4]
+Used in [https://kobra.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/bitstream/urn:nbn:de:hebis:34-200604119596/1/DissVersion0502.pdf Gregor Czisch PhD thesis], 2006 and in [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421503003112 The impact of global change on the hydropower potential of Europe: a model-based analysis], 2005.
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Contents

[edit] Introduction

[edit] Hydroelectric modelling

[edit] Hydroelectric Models

[edit] Discharge Models

[edit] Hydroelectric power plant static data

[edit] Desired data for power plants

[edit] Global datasets

[edit] Wikipedia list of hydro stations > 1000 MW

[edit] Wikipedia list of pumped hydro stations > 1000 MW

[edit] European datasets

[edit] ENTSO-E per country capacities

[edit] Eurelectric statistics

[edit] Renpass for Norway and Germany

[edit] Swiss data

[edit] Wikipedia per-country European capacities

[edit] Assessments of existing and potential future pumped hydro power and energy in Europe

[edit] Hydroelectric inflow time series data

[edit] Deriving inflow time series from weather data

[edit] Global datasets

[edit] Global Runoff Data Centre

[edit] WaterGAP

[edit] European datasets

[edit] List of datasets at Open Power Systems Data project

[edit] Inflow in Austria

[edit] Inflow in Bavaria, Germany

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Latest revision as of 18:44, 13 March 2017

Contents

[edit] Introduction

[edit] Hydroelectric modelling

[edit] Hydroelectric Models

[edit] Discharge Models

[edit] Hydroelectric power plant static data

[edit] Desired data for power plants

[edit] Global datasets

[edit] Wikipedia list of hydro stations > 1000 MW

[edit] Wikipedia list of pumped hydro stations > 1000 MW

[edit] European datasets

[edit] ENTSO-E per country capacities

[edit] Eurelectric statistics

[edit] Renpass for Norway and Germany

[edit] Swiss data

[edit] Wikipedia per-country European capacities

[edit] Assessments of existing and potential future pumped hydro power and energy in Europe

[edit] Hydroelectric inflow time series data

[edit] Deriving inflow time series from weather data

[edit] Global datasets

[edit] Global Runoff Data Centre

[edit] WaterGAP

[edit] European datasets

[edit] List of datasets at Open Power Systems Data project

[edit] Inflow in Austria

[edit] Inflow in Bavaria, Germany