In February 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office held its Peer Review Meeting in Arlington, Virginia. The purpose of the meetings was to evaluate DOE-funded water power research and development projects for contributions to DOE’s mission and goals, and to assess progress made against stated objectives.
Growth
- Overview of Growth
Tim Welch, U.S. Department of Energy - Modular Pumped Storage Hydropower Feasibility and Economic Analysis
Boualem Hadjerioua, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Standard Modular Hydropower (SMH)
Brennan Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Workforce, Education, and Training Needs Assessment for U.S. Hydropower
Jay Paidipati, Navigant Consulting, Inc. - Hydro Research Foundation University Research Awards Program
Brenna Vaughn, Hydro Research Foundation - The 45 Mile Hydroelectric Project
Jim Gordon, Earth by Design Inc. - SLH100 Demonstration Project at Monroe Hydro
Abe Schneider, Natel Energy, Inc. - Demonstration of Variable Speed Permanent Magnet Generator at Small, Low-Head Hydro Site
David Brown Kinloch, Weisenberger Mills, Inc - Demonstration of a New Low-Head Hydropower Unit
Wayne Krouse, Hydro Green Energy, LLC - South Fork Powerhouse Project
David Hanson, Sacramento Municipal Utility District - Harnessing the Hydroelectric Potential of Engineered Drops
Jerry Straalsund, Percheron Power, LLC - Cellular Cofferdam for Hydropower Use
Marte Gutierrez, Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines - Cement Changes and Solutions to the Industry
Todd Sirotiak, North Dakota State University - Optimized Composite Prototype for Archimedes Turbine Manufacture
Jerry Straalsund, Percheron Power, LLC - The Design and Development of a Composite Hydropower Turbine Runner
Pat Hipp, Composite Technology Development, Inc. - Modular Low-Head Hydropower System
David Duquette, Littoral Power Systems, Inc. - French Modular Impoundment
Bill French, French Development Enterprises, LLC - Cost-Optimization Modular Helical Rotor Turbine-Generator System for Small Hydro Power Plants
David Yee, Eaton Corporation - Rapidly Deployable Advanced Integrated Low Head Hydropower Turbine Prototype
Arnie Fontaine, Pennsylvania State University - Magnetic Gears for Hydropower Drivetrains
Emily Morris, Emrgy, Inc.
Optimization
- Overview of Optimization
Tim Welch, U.S. Department of Energy - Hydropower Manufacturing and Supply Chain Analysis
Jason Cotrell, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - National Hydropower Asset Assessment Program (NHAAP)
Shih-Chieh Kao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - U.S. Hydropower Market and Trends Report
Rocio Uria Martinez, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Cost Data Collection and Modeling for Hydropower
Patrick O’Connor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Hydropower Asset Management Research
Brennan Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Low-Head, Short-Intake Flow Measurement Research
Marshall Richmond, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Basin Scale Opportunity Assessment Initiative
Kyle Larson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Hydropower Regulatory and Permitting Information Desktop (RAPID) Toolkit
Aaron Levine, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Facilitating Regulatory Process Improvements (Federal Interagency Collaborative)
Shelaine Curd, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - PSH Transient Simulation Modeling
Ed Muljadi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Iowa Hill Pumped-storage Project Investigations
David Hanson, Sacramento Municipal Utility District - Integrated Hydropower and Storage Systems Operation for Enhanced Grid Services
Rob Hovsapian, Idaho National Laboratory
Sustainability
- Overview of Sustainability
Hoyt Battey, U.S. Department of Energy - Monitoring Technology Development for Sensitive Species (Juvenile Eel / Lamprey Tag Development)
Daniel Deng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Environmental Performance Analysis and Testing Campaign for New Technologies
Alison Colotelo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Environmental Metrics for Hydropower
Shelaine Curd, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Water Quality Modeling Improvements at Columbia and Cumberland River Basins
Boualem Hadjerioua, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Biologically-Based Design and Evaluation of Hydro-Turbines (BioDE)
Gary Johnson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Report to Congress-Potential Climate Change Impacts on Federal Hydropower
Shih-Chieh Kao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - CERC-WET Topic 3: Improving Sustainable Hydropower Design and Operations
Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California, Irvine - Informing Hydropower Investment and Operational Decisions Under Changing Hydrologic Conditions
Mark Wigmosta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory