2022 Water Power Program Peer Review Report and Presentations

View the final report and presentations from the U.S. Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office 2022 Program Peer Review virtual event spanning from July 18-29, 2022.

2022 Peer Review Final Report

Volume I

Volume I contains a brief overview of the Peer Review process, comments from reviewers, and program responses to comments.

Volume II

Volume II contains complete results of the Peer Review process, including quantitative scores specific to programs and activity areas.

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2022 Peer Review Presentations

Hydropower

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Hydropower Program Opening Plenary

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
WPTO Overview	WPTO	Jennifer Garson
Peer Review Introduction	WPTO	Ali Hewett
Hydropower Program Overview	WPTO	Tim Welch
Data Access and Analytics Overview	WPTO	Corey Vezina, Allison Johnson
Hydropower, STEM, and Workforce Development Overview	NREL	Elise DeGeorge

Innovations for Low-Impact Hydropower Growth

Day 2:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
Innovations for Low-Impact Hydropower Growth Activity Area Overview	WPTO	Katie Jackson
Groundbreaking Hydro and I AM Hydro Prizes	NREL, ORNL, WPTO	Tessa Greco, Scott DeNeale, Katie Jackson
The Design and Development of a Composite Hydropower Turbine Runner	Composite Technology Development, Inc.	Paul Fabian
Cold Spray Process Development for In Situ Repair and Mitigation of Cavitation Erosion	PNNL	Chris Smith
Standard Modular Hydropower Technology Acceleration	ORNL	Scott DeNeale
Restoration Hydro: A Watershed Approach to Standard Modular New Hydropower	Natel Energy Inc.	Abe Schneider
Prefabricated Standard Modular Hydropower Installations for Low-Cost Small Hydropower	Littoral Power Systems Inc	David Duquette
Small Hydro Interconnection Study	PNNL, ORNL	Alison Colotelo, Todd Wall, Chris O'Reilly, Hope Corsair

Day 3:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
Development of a Modular Helical Fish Passage for Low Head Applications	Percheron Power, LLC	Jerry Straalsund
Advanced Compact Generation Module with Fish Safe Runner Technology	Natel Energy, Inc.	Gregor Cadman, Sterling Watson
Prefabricated Zero Ascend Omnispecies (ZAO) Modular Fish Passage Modules Using Advanced Manufacturing Techniques	Littoral Power Systems Inc.	David Duquette
A Novel Sediment Passage Module Design for Support of Standard Modular Hydropower	Regents of The University of Minnesota	Jeffrey Marr
National Conduit Resource Assessment	ORNL	Shih-Chieh Kao
Integrated Water Power Resilience	PNNL, INL	Juliet Homer, Shiloh Elliott
Irrigation Modernization	INL, PNNL	Thomas Mosier
Alternative Opportunities for Hydropower	PNNL, INL	Rajiv, Prasad, Thomas Mosier
Cost Data Collection & Modeling for Hydropower	ORNL	Gbadebo Oladosu

HydroWIRES

Day 2:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
HydroWIRES Initiative Overview	WPTO	Sam Bockenhauer
Hydropower Flexibility Framework	Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.	Francisco Kuljevan
Increasing Operational Flexibility of Francis Turbines at Low Head Sites, Through Analytical and Empirical Solutions	GE Renewable Energy Hydro	Guillaume Rudelle
Exploring Multidimensional Spatial-Temporal Hydropower Operational Flexibilities by Modeling and Optimizing Water-Constrained Cascading Hydroelectric	Stevens Institute of Technology	Lei Wu
Identifying Hydropower Operational Flexibilities in Presence of Streamflow and Net-Load Uncertainty	University of California, Irvine	Soroosh Sorooshian and Bita Analui
Geomechanical Pumped Storage	Quidnet Energy Inc.	Howard Schmidt
Modeling And Optimizing Pumped Storage in A Multi-Stage Large Scale Electricity Market Under Portfolio Evolution	University of Missouri System	Rui Bo
Value And Role of Pumped Storage Hydro Under High Variable Renewables	GE Power	Christina Bisceglia
Predicting Unique Market Pumped Storage Significance (PUMPSS)	Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.	Aidan Tuohy

Day 3:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
FAST Commissioning Prize for Pumped Storage Hydropower	NREL	Tessa Greco
PSH-TES Tool	PNNL, ANL	Mark Weimar, Patrick Balducci
HydroWIRES Topic D1: CEM Enhancements	NREL	Stuart Cohen
Value Drivers Quantification	ANL, NREL, PNNL	Todd Levin
HydroWIRES Topic A: Environment-Flexibility Win-Wins	ORNL	Brenda Pracheil
PSH Portfolio Evaluation and Innovation Study	ANL	Vladimir Koritarov
Life Cycle Assessment of Storage Technologies	NREL	Greg Stark
Scope Improvements to Power Flow and Stability Models	PNNL	Slaven Kincic

Day 4:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
HydroWIRES Topic C: Quantifying Reliability/Resilience	PNNL, ANL, INL, NREL, ORNL	Abishek Somani
HydroWIRES Topic D2: Transmission/Storage Equivalence	PNNL, ANL	Jeremy Twitchell, Zhi Zhou
Idaho Power Run-of-River Hydropower and Battery Modeling	PNNL	Feng Pan
Hydropower Plant Controller Prototyping using Remote Hardware in the Loop	NREL	Mayank Panwar
Integrated Hydropower and Energy Storage: Providing Essential Reliability and Ancillary Services using Individual or Coordinated Hydropower Plants	INL, NREL	Thomas Mosier, Vahan Gevorgian
Hydropower Storage Capacity Dataset	ORNL	Carly Hansen
HydroWIRES Topic B1: Enhancing the Representation of Conventional Hydropower Flexibility in Production Cost Models	NREL, PNNL	Greg Stark, Nathalie Voisin
HydroWIRES Topic B2: Improving the Representation of Hydrologic Processes and Reservoir Operations in Production Cost Models	NREL, PNNL	Greg Stark, Nathalie Voisin
HydroWIRES Topic D3: Forecasting	PNNL, INL	Nathalie Voisin, Thomas Mosier

Fleet Modernization, Maintenance, and Cybersecurity

Day 4:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	PRESENTER
Fleet Modernization, Maintenance, and Cybersecurity Activity Area Overview	WPTO	Kyle DeSomber
Digital Twin	PNNL ORNL	Osman Ahmed, Hong Wang
Hydropower Fleet Intelligence	ORNL	Pradeep Ramuhalli
Cybersecurity Value-At-Risk Framework	NREL, ANL	Anuj Sanghvi
Hydropower Cyber-Physical Reference Framework	PNNL, ANL, NREL	Ken Ham
Hydropower Cybersecurity Risk/State of Fleet	PNNL	Marie Whyatt
Hydropower Fleet Cybersecurity Response and Recovery	PNNL	Darlene Thorsen

Environmental & Hydrologic Systems Science

Day 2:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
Environmental and Hydrologic Systems Science Activity Area Overview	WPTO	Dana McCoskey
A Real-time and Autonomous Water Quality Monitoring System	PNNL	Daniel Deng
Shad Tag Development	PNNL	Daniel Deng
Fish Protection Prize	NREL, WPTO	Tessa Grecco, Dana McCoskey

Day 3:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
Demonstrating Value of River Data Aggregation and Visualization Capabilities	PNNL	Kyle Larson
GMLC Water Risk for the Bulk Power System: Asset to Grid Impacts	NREL, ORNL	Ariel Miara
Methane Emissions	ORNL	Natalie Griffiths
FERC eLibrary	PNNL	James Bradford, Bo Saulsbury
Hydro Fleet Database Development and Analyses (HydroSource)	ORNL	Debjani Singh

Marine Energy

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Marine Energy Program Opening Plenary

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
WPTO Overview	WPTO	Jennifer Garson
Peer Review Introduction	WPTO	Ali Hewett
Marine Energy Program Overview	WPTO	Tim Ramsey
Powering the Blue Economy Overview	WPTO/NREL	Tessa Greco
Marine Energy STEM and Workforce Development	NREL	Arielle Cardinal

Foundational R&D

Day 2:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
Foundational R&D Activity Area Overview	WPTO	William McShane
Demonstration of an Advanced Multi-Mode Point Absorber for Wave Energy Conversion	Oscilla Power, Inc.	Tim Mundon
Seawater Compatible Rotary Pump for Wave Energy Conversion	Resolute Marine Energy, Inc.	Marcus Gay
Design of High-Deflection Foils for MHK Applications	Ocean Renewable Power Company, LLC	Jarlath McEntee
Performance Testing of An Integrated Magnetic Power Take-Off	Portland State University	Jonathan Bird
Holistic Control Embedded Power Take Off (PTO) Development	CalWave Power Technologies Inc.	Thomas Boerner, Marcus Lehmann, Dan Petcovic

Day 3:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
Fatigue and Structural Load Analysis and Control for Variable Geometry Wave Energy Converters	NREL	Nathan Tom
Next Generation WEC PTO Co-Design	SNL	Ryan Coe
Wave Energy Converter Modeling	NREL, SNL	Dave Ogden, Kelley Ruehl
WEC Array Power Management and Output Simulation Tool	NREL, PNNL	Toan Thanh Tran
WEC Design Optimization	SNL	Ryan Coe
Wave Energy Converter Interlink Umbilical Cables Design Requirements, Best Practices and Recommended Design Improvements	PNNL	Leo Fifield
Model Validation and Site Characterization for Early Deployment MHK Sites and Establishment of Wave Classification Scheme	NREL, PNNL, SNL	Levi Kilcher, Vincent Neary, Zhaoqing Yang

Technology-Specific System Design and Validation

Day 2:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
Technology-Specific System Design and Validation Activity Area Overview	WPTO	Elaine Buck
Reduction of System Cost Characteristics Through Innovative Solutions to Installation, Operations, And Maintenance	Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.	Michael Ondusko
Open Water Testing of a Scaled Next Generation Point Absorber Wave Energy Device with Phase Control	AquaHarmonics, Inc.	Alex Hagmuller
Water Horse Hydroelectric Harvester Development	University of Alaska Fairbanks	Jeremy Kasper
Performance Optimization and System Demonstration of a Multi-Mode Point Absorber	Oscilla Power, Inc.	Tim Mundon
Cycloidal Wave Energy Converter	Atargis Energy Corporation	Stefan Siegel
Design, Build and Test of Novel, Remote, Low-Power Wave Energy Converter for Non-Grid Applications	Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.	Erik Hammagren
Hawaii Wave Surge Energy Converter (HAWSEC)	University of Hawaii Systems	Patrick Cross

Day 3:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
XCT System for Harvesting In-Current Hydrokinetic Energy from Low-Velocity Sites	Littoral Power Systems Inc.	David Duquette
An Innovative SR-WEC for a Market-Disruptive LCOE	Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station	HeonYong Kang
Device Design and Robust Periodic Motion Control of an Ocean Kite System for Hydrokinetic Energy Harvesting	North Carolina State University	Chris Vermillion
Low-Flow Marine Hydrokinetic Turbine for Small Autonomous Unmanned Mobile Recharge Stations	Florida Atlantic University	Manhar Dhanak
Modular RivGen	Ocean Renewable Power Company, Inc.	Ryan Tyler
Advancing CalWave's WEC Design for PacWave	CalWave Power Technologies Inc.	Thomas Boerner
Floating Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converter Using Controllable Efficient Power Takeoff System	Stevens Institute of Technology (Inc)	Muhammad R. Hajj
MARMOK - Oscillating Water Column (OWC)	Idom, Inc.	Borja de Miguel Para
Optimization, Design, And Commercialization Planning of Next-Generation Stingray H3 Wave Energy Converter	Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.	Pukha Lenee-Bluhm

Day 4:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
Waves to Water: Desalination Prize	NREL, WPTO	Scott Jenne, Simon Gore
Ocean Observing Prize	NREL, PNNL, WPTO	Jenny Wiegele, Carrie Schmaus
Wave-SPARC - Structured Innovation	NREL, SNL	Jochem Weber
Distributed Embedded Energy Converter Technologies DEEC-TEC	NREL	Blake Boren
Significant Cost Reduction Potential for Wave Energy Conversion Devices with Variable Geometry Modules	NREL	Nathan Tom
Verdant/NREL Research Measurement Campaign	NREL	Robynne Murray

Reducing Barriers to Testing

Day 3:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
Reducing Barriers to Testing Activity Area Overview	WPTO	Lauren Reudy
Triton Initiative	PNNL	Joe Haxel, Garrett Staines
Rapidly Deployable Acoustic Monitoring and Localization System Based on A Low-Cost Wave Buoy Platform	Integral Consulting Inc.	Kaustubha Raghukumar
Long-Range Target Detection and Classification System for Environmental Monitoring at MHK Sites	Biosonics, Inc.	Tim Acker
Improvements to Hydrodynamic and Acoustic Models for Environmental Prediction	SNL	Jesse Roberts
National Lab and University Collaboration for MHK Instrumentation and Data Processing Tools	NREL, PNNL, SNL	Rebecca Fao
Network Director for The Testing Expertise and Access for Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) Program	Pacific Ocean Energy Trust	Matt Sanders

Day 4:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
Enabling Cost Effective Electricity from Ocean Waves: PacWave	Oregon State University	Burke Hales
National Marine Renewable Energy Center Infrastructure Upgrades	University of Washington	Brian Polagye
Current Turbines Mobile Testing Vessel	Idom, Inc.	Alvaro Garcia

Data Access, Analytics, and Workforce Development

Day 4:

PRESENTATION TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	SPEAKER
Marine Energy Data Access, Analytics, and Workforce Development Overview	WPTO	Allison Johnson
MHK Data Products and User Community Development (PRIMRE)	PNNL, NREL, SNL	Andrea Copping, Cesar Castillo, Jon Weers
International Environmental Data Sharing Initiative (Annex IV Project & Tethys Database)	PNNL	Andrea Copping
Improving The Efficiency and Effectiveness for MHK Permitting: A Toolkit and Engagement for Success	Kearns & West, Inc.	Zach Barr
Grid Value Proposition of MHK	PNNL, NREL	Dhruv Bhatnagar, Levi Kilcher