TY - UNPB AU - Hediger, Werner AU - Herter, Marc AU - Schuler, Christoph T1 - The Future of Swiss Hydropower PY - 2019 UR - https://fonew.unibas.ch/de/projects/finished-projects/nfp70-futurehydro/ AB - The NRP70 project 'The Future of Swiss Hydropower: An Integrated Economic Assessment of Chances, Threats and Solutions' (HP Future) addresses the challenges Swiss Hydropower faces in the changing electricity market environment. It particularly aims to answer three main research questions: 1. What are short-term operational options for Swiss HP to cope with the volatile market situation? 2. What are long-term investment options for Swiss HP and how can uncertainty be accounted? 3. What are the regional impacts from a comprehensive sustainability perspective? The project started in fall 2014. During the project the discussion on adjustments of the Swiss water fee framework emerged, leading to an extension of the project to answer the following questions: 4. What are the distributional effects of different water fee reform options? 5. What are regional, fiscal and economic feedback effects of those changes? This final report provides a summary of the main findings to questions 4 and 5 from a public finance and regional development perspective. It complements the interim report by Betz et al. (2018), entitled "The Future of Swiss Hydropower: Distributional Effects of Water Fee Reform Options", and contributes to the final report of the overall project "The Future of Swiss Hydropower: Realities, Options and Open Questions". T4 - Water Fee-induced Financial Flows in Switzerland T5 - Final Report Y3 - 30.01.2020 M4 - Citavi ER -