The impact of climate change on Kaunas hydropower plant power production

Punys, Petras; Tirūnas, Dainius; Bagdžiūnaitė-Litvinaitienė, Lina; Pelikan, Bernhard

Use this url to cite publication: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14911/121344

The impact of climate change on Kaunas hydropower plant power production

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Publication Type (CRIS)

Straipsnis recenzuojamoje Lietuvos tarptautinės konferencijos medžiagoje / Article in peer-reviewed Lithuanian international conference proceedings (P1e)

Publication Type (eLABa)

Straipsnis recenzuotame konferencijos darbų leidinyje / Article published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings (P1d)

Author(s)

Author	Affiliation
Punys, Petras	Aleksandro Stulginskio universitetas
Tirūnas, Dainius	Aleksandro Stulginskio universitetas
Bagdžiūnaitė-Litvinaitienė, Lina	Aleksandro Stulginskio universitetas	Aplinkos apsaugos ir vandens inžinerijos katedra / Department of Environment Protection and Water Engineering (0356)
Pelikan, Bernhard	University of Agriculture and Forestry, Wien

Title

The impact of climate change on Kaunas hydropower plant power production

[en]

Petras Punys, Dainius Tirunas, Lina Bagdziunaite-Litvinaitiene, Bernhard Pelikan

Is part of

The 7th International conference Environmental engineering. May 22-23, 2008 Vilnius, Lithuania : proceedings [CD]

Published In

Year	Start Page	End Page
2008	1	6

Publisher

Vilnius : Technika, 2008

Extent

p. 1-6

URI

URI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14911/121344

Cited references

Science / Art Area

Technologijos mokslai / Technological sciences (T)

Field of Science / Art

Aplinkos inžinerija / Environmental engineering (T004)

Keywords (en)

Abstract (en)

The analysis of the river flow and related meteorological factors has been carried out in the Nemunas river catchment in order to find out the impact of possible climate change on Kaunas hydroelectric plant (Kaunas HPP) power generation. The data of the 6 meteorological stations has been used to describe climatic situation in the catchment. Seasonal river flow tendencies have been reviewed based on the long term river flow measurements in the representatives gauging stations of the Nemunas basin. 5 of them were used to investigate mean annual flow tendencies. Relations have been analysed between Kaunas HPP electricity production and average flows (annual and seasonal). Statistical tests show a clear decrease in the time flow series of springtime and increase in power production during winter season. The main conclusion has been done that current global warming benefits hydropower generation in Lithuania.