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Southwestern celebrated its 80th year in hydropower with gatherings of employees, customers, and stakeholders at open house events held at offices in Springfield, Missouri, Jonesboro, Arkansas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Gore, Oklahoma.

Jen Trimble's desire to protect people and serve a bigger picture has led her from the U.S. Army to public works in Texas to her current role: operations manager for the U.S. Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office.

The Water Power Technologies Office funds projects in a range of topics through the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. Learn about recent projects and the Phase I topics for Fiscal Year 2024.

The Water Power Technologies Office announced nearly $1.8 million for nine projects to further marine energy research and development at DOE’s national laboratories.

$9.5 million funding opportunity to strengthen hydropower's ability to support an electric grid with an increasing amount of variable renewable energy resources.

During the Clean Currents conference, the Water Power Technologies Office kicked off the Hydropower Collegiate Competition, hosted competitors for the H2Os Prize, featured talks from national laboratory researchers at the DOE booth, and more.

Nineteen teams split $285,000 in Phase I of the Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize for their distributed embedded energy converter technology concepts to harness and convert the power of ocean waves into usable types of energy.

The Water Power Technologies Office announced four winners in the fourth phase of the H2Os Prize, which challenged innovators to upgrade hydropower technology using 21st century solutions.

The Water Power Technologies Office published a notice of intent to issue a $9.5 million funding opportunity to advance hydropower’s flexibility. The office expects to release this funding opportunity in fall 2023.

The Water Power Technologies Office and national laboratories will be attending and presenting on their work at the Clean Currents conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, from Oct. 10-13, 2023.