Project no. 608472 INSPIRE-Grid IMPROVED AND ENHANCED STAKEHOLDERS PARTICIPATION IN REINFORCEMENT OF ELECTRICITY GRID Instrument: Collaborative project Thematic priority: ENERGY.2013.7.2.4 – Ensuring stakeholder support for future grid infrastructures Start date of project: 01 October 2013 Duration: 36 months Deliverable 6.2 SELECTION OF CASE STUDIES Revision: Final version Submission date: 20 February 2015 RTE (Réseau de Transport d’Électricité) (2) D6.2_Selection of case studies.doc Page 1-20 Dissemination Level PU Public X PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services) Author(s) Name Organisation E-mail Vivien Molinengo RTE [email protected] Amélie Lafragette RTE [email protected] Jon Lilley PIK [email protected] Alessandro Luè Poliedra [email protected] Julie Evensen Statnett [email protected] Bente Rudberg Statnett [email protected] Status of deliverable Action By Date Verified Amélie Lafragette - RTE 27-01-2015 Approved (GC) Antonio Negri - RSE 20-02-2015 Abstract The current deliverable delves into the process of selection of the INSPIRE-Grid case studies, notably in accordance with the geographical, temporal and technical criteria defined in the Description of Work. To that end, the nature and characteristics of the methodologies to be experimented as well as of the TSOs’ projects chosen for hosting the case studies are described. This deliverable also provides preliminary instructions on data collection and the implementation of the case studies. “Version history” that will become “Revision history” when the final “version” is converted into .pdf format and submitted to the European Commission. Date Version Author(s) Comments Summer 2014 0.1 WP6 partners Information inputs 18-11-2014 1.0 Vivien Molinengo Initial draft 21-11-2014 1.1 Vivien Molinengo Internal RTE review Modifications following the decision to choose a 10-12-2014 2.0 Vivien Molinengo different project for one of the case studies. Modifications on the basis of the comments from 16-12-2014 2.1 Vivien Molinengo the WP6 partners. Final modifications on the basis of the comments 20-02-2015 Final Vivien Molinengo from the WP6 partners. D6.2_Selection of case studies.doc Page 2-20 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................................ 4 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ......................................................................................................... 5 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 6 1 DESCRIPTION OF THE SELECTION PROCESS OF THE CASE STUDIES ........... 7 2 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECTS THAT WILL HOST THE CASE STUDIES ... 9 2.1 Cergy-Persan ................................................................................................................ 9 2.2 Bamble-Rød ............................................................................................................... 11 2.3 Aurland-Sogndal ........................................................................................................ 13 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CASE STUDIES .............. 16 3.1 The Cergy-Persan case study: Life-cycle assessment (LCA) .................................... 16 3.2 The Bamble-Rød case study: Multi-criteria Analysis (ex-post MCA) ....................... 17 3.3 The Aurland-Sogndal case study: Multi-criteria Analysis (MCA) ............................ 18 CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................ 20 D6.2_Selection of case studies.doc Page 3-20 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1- Summarized description of the three case studies ................................................................ 8 Figure 2- The electric ring around the Ile-de-France region ................................................................ 9 Figure 3 - Route of the Cergy-Persan project .................................................................................... 10 Figure 4 - Route of the Bamble-Rød project ...................................................................................... 12 Figure 5 - Route of the Aurland-Sogndal project .............................................................................. 14 Figure 6 - The Cergy-Persan case study timeline for 2014-2015 ...................................................... 17 Figure 7 - The Bamble-Rød case study timeline for 2014-2015........................................................ 18 Figure 8 - The Aurland-Sogndal case study timeline for 2014-2015 ................................................ 19 D6.2_Selection of case studies.doc Page 4-20 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Dx.x Deliverable EIA Environmental impact assessment LCA Life-cycle analysis MCA Multi-criteria analysis MS Milestone WP Work Package D6.2_Selection of case studies.doc Page 5-20 INTRODUCTION Case studies (Work Package 6) are at the very core of the INSPIRE-Grid project. As experimentations of the methodologies – life-cycle analysis (LCA) and multi-criteria analysis (MCA) – defined in WP4 “Methodologies for the assessment and comparison of grid infrastructures”, case studies aim in fact to both feed and validate the theoretical research works conducted in the other WPs. This is particularly true for WP5 “Processes for public engagement”, whose handbook of guidelines and decision tree are expected to fully integrate the content and results of the experimentations. Conversely, the first results of the theoretical WPs are expected to feed the experimentations that will be conducted in the case studies, particularly to frame stakeholder engagement and the decision-making process. Choosing properly the case studies constitutes a major step in the INSPIRE-Grid project, considering the role they will play for the project’s final results. For this reason, it is of utmost importance to identify TSOs’ projects whose characteristics would favour productive experimentations of the LCA and MCA methodologies. This is precisely the purpose of the current deliverable, which must be read as the continuation of Deliverable 6.1 (D6.1). D6.1 aimed to design a preliminary framework for the case studies and to provide background information that could be used in Tasks 6.2 “Selection of case studies” and 6.3 “Implementation of methodologies in case studies”. While D6.1 mainly provided guidance regarding the future stakeholder analysis process and the selection of the methodologies for the case studies, the current deliverable describes in details TSOs’ projects that will host the case studies and the reasons why LCA and MCA have been chosen as appropriate methodologies, in accordance with the characteristics of these projects. In INSPIRE-Grid, case studies refer in fact to experimentations where some specific methodologies (LCA and MCA) will be experimented in some TSOs’ projects for which has been identified a need for such methodologies. In addition, this deliverable also gives preliminary instructions on the implementation of the methodologies to be experimented, data collection, interactions with stakeholders and the timeline of the future fieldwork. To that end, the current report is structured in three parts: - The first one describes how case studies have been selected, notably in accordance with the general criteria defined in the INSPIRE-Grid Description of Work. - The second one delves into the nature, characteristics and context of the projects that will host the case studies, with the purpose to underline to which extent these projects are suitable for the experimentations. - The third part focuses on the organization of the implementation of the case studies, regarding for instance data collection, timelines and interactions with stakeholders. D6.2_Selection of case studies.doc Page 6-20 1 DESCRIPTION OF THE SELECTION PROCESS OF THE CASE STUDIES In accordance with the Description of Work, the selection of the INSPIRE-Grid case studies must comply with three main criteria, namely: - a geographical criterion, stating that case studies should be chosen in different countries and/or regions in order to be representative at the European scale; - a temporal criterion, stating that case studies should be representative of the different phases of a decision-making process; - a technical criterion, stating that only high voltage projects should be chosen with a particular attention given, if relevant, to interconnection projects and projects that contribute to the integration of renewable energies. Another important condition in the selection process is that the context of the projects should be opportune for the fieldwork required by the INSPIRE-Grid case studies. The evaluation of the methodologies experimented, regarding particularly how they contribute to stakeholder engagement, will in fact be based on interactions with projects’ stakeholders. As a consequence, it is of utmost importance that the contexts of the case studies favour productive relations between researchers and stakeholders without hindering the achievement of TSOs’ projects. As for the methodologies to be experimented, they must be innovative enough to have a clear added-value regarding stakeholder engagement in