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SmallFLEX

Project ID

Full name

SmallFLEX

Call:

"Project P+D // SFOE // https://www.bfe.admin.ch/bfe/en/home/research-and-cleantech/pilot-demonstration-and-flagship-projects-programme.html"

Funding period:

01/2018-12/2020

Coordinator:

Cecile Münch

Website:

www.sccer-soe.ch/en/research/pilots-demos/smallflex/

In the framework of the new feed-in-tariff system in Switzerland for Small Hydropower Plants (SHP), the aim of the SmallFLEX project, led by HES-SO Valais and performed in collaboration with EPFL, WSL, EAWAG, PVE, and FMV, is to show how SHP can provide winter peak energy and ancillary services, whilst remaining eco-compatible. The pilot and demonstrator site selected is the new small hydropower plant of Gletsch-Oberwald (KWGO) owned by FMV and commissioned end of 2017. This run-of-river power plant is equipped with two six jets Pelton turbine units featuring a maximum power of 7 MW each. The addition of flexibility can be reached by using existing volumes of the power plant: the settling basin, the forebay chamber as well as part of the headrace tunnel.

Partners

Contact

Cécile Münch-Alligné Professor, coordinator of the project
HES SO Valais

+41786253002