Floating PV in mountain artificial lakes: a sustainable contribution?
| Publicatietype: | Proceedings |
| Citatie: | Piana V. Floating PV in mountain artificial lakes: a sustainable contribution?, presented at International Mountain Conference, Innsbruck, 2019. |
| Boektitel: | International Mountain Conference |
| Jaar: | 2019 |
| Maand: | September |
| Samenvatting: | In this contribution, we present an overview of the current state of research on a specific renewable technology (floating photovoltaics), whose application in artificial lakes in mountains seems promising but also requiring a careful crafting in technical, economic, social and environmental terms. Floating photovoltaic panels over dam reservoirs may provide a relatively inexpensive, as recent data highlight, as well as a highly upscalable increase of electricity supply, with synergies with existing hydro-plants (e.g. in transmission lines). Mountains have favourable conditions for solar energy but they have a high landscape value and several fragilities. Thus, we extend the current research by providing a detailed checklist of factors and potential venues of remedial means that might, lake-by-lake, maximise the positive impacts and minimize the negative ones, including by highlighting factors that might prevent its use altogether in certain lakes. We describe possible synergies across lakes, in the logic of providing positive externalities to a managed socioeconomic trajectory of diffusion of Floating PV in mountains across the globe, with innovation arising as solutions to the bottlenecks. The potential contribution to landscape services and tourist attractivity is taken into account into the main text, while referring to an appendix for a broader coverage. From all this, it emerges a balanced vision of desired energy futures of mountain regions, where renewable energy production is integrated into broader sustainability goals and measures. It should be emphasised that this contribution is not a narrow engineering exercise-nor certain technical issues are treated the depth expected if it were-but rather represents a critical reflection of the potential of a new technology, having in mind the contraints that society posed to other technologies in the the past, thus it is sensitive to the need of establishing a fruitful dialogue, since the very beginning, not only among legally entitled institutions but also across a broad range of stakeholders. Accordingly, we end our contribution with a number of recommendations to national governments, regional authorities, hydropower plant operators, investors, municipalities, local communities and civic society, and energy experts. |
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