Romanche-Gavet Hydroelectric Plant
Project details
Project name: Romanche-Gavet Hydroelectric Plant
Project location: Romanche River, south‐eastern France
Installed capacity: 94 MW
Project owner: Électricité de France SA (EDF)
Assessment details
Assessment tool: Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol (HSAP)
Assessment stage: Implementation
Assessment date: May - July 2013, with an on-site assessment on 10-14 June 2013
Assessor team for the Romanche-Gavet Hydroelectric Plant
Sustainability assessment overview
The Romanche-Gavet Hydroelectric Plant has relatively limited adverse environmental and social impacts, and has the potential to deliver long term benefits for the local community. The design of the project directly addresses the need to reduce adverse impacts of hydropower generation in the Romanche valley through the removal of the old plants and water transport infrastructure, improvement in conditions for recreation and tourism, and use of some of the decommissioned plants for cultural heritage conservation or economic purposes.
Romanche‐Gavet satisfies the Protocol’s criteria of ‘proven best practice’ on 11 out of 18 topics and meets or exceeds the Protocol’s criteria of ‘basic good practice’ on all remaining topics.
