SMART MINI-IDRO – SHARE Project Customized Version:
An EXCEL tool to evaluate the main hydropower project parameters of a given hydroproject, considering the flow duration curve, the available heads and the types of turbines to be installed, the range of discharges to be used.
The tool considers the possibility to apply government incentives to the investment as the “green certificates” and finally is able to evaluate the cash-flow of the investment.
The tool helps the user as a first approach to begin a preliminary project, leading to a first analysis of the economical and financial parameters of a new SHP.
INPUT DATA:
- flow duration curve at the analyzed site
- the available head at the analyzed site
- the types of turbines to be installed
- hydropower efficiency coefficients
- price of the energy
- price of the green certificates
OUTCOMES:
For a given plant:
- Turbined flow duration curves
- Penstock looses calculation
- Automatic turbine type selection
- Plant energy and power calculation
- Initial investment parametric calculation
- Financial cash-flow calculation, considering green certificates
HARDWARE/SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
SMART MINI-IDRO is written in Microsoft Excel macro language.
Hardware: a normal Windows PC
Software: Microsoft Excel 2003
DISSEMINATION RULES
SMART MINI-IDRO is freely distributed among users.
Contact Andrea Mammoliti Mochet (a.mammolitimochet@arpa.vda.it) for download procedures.
