A Climate for Change

(^102) Water Resources Human Development Report - Croatia 2008
Figure 7-2: Distribution of hydroelectric plants
HE Dubrava
HE Ozalj
HE Gojak
HE Zeleni Vir
HE Rijeka RHE Lepenica
CHE Fužine
HE Vinodol
HE Sinj
HE Sklope
RHE Velebit
MHE Krčić
HE Miljacka
HE Jaruga
HE Zavrelje
HE Golubić
HE Peruča CHE B. Blato
HE Dubrovnik
HE Orlovac
HE Đale
HE Zakučac
HE Kraljevac
HE Varaždin
HE Čakovec
III The term “ecosystem services” refers to resource flows between
the ecosystem and economic activity which makes it possible to
place economic values on these flows and ultimately on the ecosys-
tem assets that produce these flows.
Source: HEP 2008a
for hydroelectric generation have already been taken.
New plants would need to be built in valleys with po-
tential detrimental effects on the environment and on
groundwater recharge. These poorer quality sites have
less storage capacity and less force behind the water-
propelled turbine blades. Therefore their final cost of
production, including capital and operating costs, will
be higher and their capacity will be lower than the old
plants currently in operation. Only one hydropower
plant is currently under construction – Lešće on the
River Dobra – which should have a capacity of 43 MW.
Several hydropower plants in Croatia – notably those
in the Adriatic basin – depend on trans-boundary in-
flow from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
7.3.4. Water use 3: Wetland services
Wetlands provide a variety of ecosystem services:
fishing, forest management, grassland farming, recre-
ation, flood protection, carbon storage and regional
climatic stabilization, water regime regulation and
habitat for a number of plant and animal species, etc.III
The MEPPPC (2006) suggests that aquatic and wetland
habitats providing important ecological services, are
Wetlands
provide a variety
of ecosystem
services:
fishing, forest
management,
grassland
farming,
recreation, flood
protection,
carbon storage
and regional
climatic
stabilization,
water regime
regulation and
habitat for a
number of plant
and animal
species, etc