Hydropower News

In late 2019, PNNL’s new autonomous, mobile, water quality sensor platform was field-tested for the first time.

In 2020, three winners were selected for the Fish Protection Prize, a competition soliciting ideas to protect fish from water infrastructure.

In October 2019, WPTO selected four grand prize winners for the Furthering Advancements to Shorten Time (FAST) Commissioning for PSH Prize.

PNNL has completed the development of new, highly miniaturized fish-tags, able to be quickly injected, even into tiny juvenile eel and lamprey.

In 2020, NREL released new STEM and workforce development portals for both marine energy and hydropower.

The Electric Power Institute (EPRI) has successfully automated identification processes for young American eel tracked with multi-beam sonar.

WPTO supported the creation of PRIMRE, a Portal and Repository for Information on Marine Renewable Energy.

In 2020, Verdant Power deployed their fifth generation Free Flow System turbines with their new TriFrame™ mount in New York’s East River.

In 2019, NREL completed a multi-year system design and validation project with Columbia Power using the 5-megawatt dynamometer.

In 2019, the Alaskan village of Igiugig worked with Ocean Renewable Power Company to deploy the RivGen® Power System.