Mission

CCHP-Alps, a PRIN 2022 project

CCHP-Alps, a project funded under the PRIN 2022 (PROGETTI DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE – Bando 2022) project, and covering 24 months during 2023-2025, features as a coordinator Università Statale di Milano, with CNR-IRSA Bologna, and Politecnico di Milano as partners..

The projec focuses upon present, and prospective hydropower potential in the Alps, under global, and climate change.

"Global warming severely affects Alpine hydrology, especially impacting winter storage and slow release of water from snow/ice melt during spring/summer. Changes in water availability and seasonality affect hydropower production, which in Italy has a fundamental role in the energy sector. In fact, not only water provides a large share of the energy production, but back pumping of water and repeated exploitation provide large energy storage, hardly feasible with other means. Within this context, the project CCHP-ALPS - Climate Change and HydroPower in the Alps aims at assessing the impact of past and projected climate change upon hydropower potential of the Po river catchment, which gathers a large share of water from the Southern Alps."