A negotiated solution can only be found if both sides benefit from it. Objective criteria, including their weighting, must be defined in order to assess the benefits. Agreeing on these criteria and their weighting in advance speeds up the negotiations.
‘Electricity companies, environmental protection organisations and cantons have agreed on rules and a list of fifteen projects for the expansion of hydropower plants.
The parties involved have succeeded in agreeing on a methodology for assessing storage hydropower projects. Biodiversity and landscape protection are taken into account on the one hand and energy management criteria on the other. Both assessments are combined in such a way that those projects with the least impact on biodiversity and landscape per additional GWh of storage are favoured. Based on this method, the round table selected fifteen projects that would lead to a total of 2 TWh of additional controllable winter production. The list includes two projects in the Grimsel region: the raising of the dam wall at #Grimselsee and a new reservoir below the #Triftgletscher. There is fierce opposition to both projects. The biggest project on the list is a new reservoir near the melting Gorner Glacier above Zermatt.’ NZZ, 14.12.21
