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April 11, 2024Today’s hydropower plants can benefit from leveraging modern technologies. Read more to explore the answers to six questions about what hydropower modernization is, why it’s important, and how DOE is supporting this goal.Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office
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InteractiveMarch 20, 2024The REDi web app provides a virtual, renewable-energy-powered world home to more than a dozen water power waystations. REDi’s interactive experience allows users to grow food with power from river currents; explore a city that runs on clean, steady hydropower; and see how ocean waves provide energy to purify water, ramp up research, and protect vulnerable ecosystems.
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March 13, 2024The Water Power Technologies Office and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education announced five students selected for the Marine Energy Graduate Student Research Program. They will work with mentors to advance their marine energy research.Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office
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BlogMarch 6, 2024The Water Power Technologies Office and Minority-Serving Institutions STEM Research and Development Consortium announced nearly $1.2 million for high-impact water power research projects at minority-serving colleges and universities.Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office
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February 16, 2024Imagine this modern manufacturing challenge: Building colossal pieces of precision machinery, over 10 tons in weight. Manufacturers must build these pieces of machinery to operate precisely, so that they function properly when fully assembled.Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office
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February 15, 2024Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working to change that through new efforts to understand and predict the amount of methane and carbon dioxide coming from hydropower reservoirs across the United States.Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office
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February 13, 2024New Advanced Manufacturing and Materials for Hydropower Strategy identifies research and development priorities and will guide the office’s efforts related to hydropower and advanced manufacturing and materials.Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office
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February 1, 2024A new web-based app expands Renewable Energy Discovery Island’s educational potential, providing resources for students of all ages at the click of a mouse.Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office
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November 13, 2023DOE launched the Powering the Blue Economy™: Power at Sea Prize , which will award up to $1.7 million to competitors to advance technologies that use marine energy to power ocean-based activitiesHydropower and Hydrokinetic Office
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September 25, 2023The Water Power Technologies Office recently selected six innovative marine energy projects for funding through the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer program.Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office