The Hydropower Peer Review will evaluate WPTO-funded hydropower and pumped storage projects based on their contribution to the office’s mission and goals, track progress made against stated objectives, and assess the office's overall management and performance.
Results from the Peer Review process are used to inform decision-making, enhance active project management, and modify or expand existing projects. The Peer Review process enables external stakeholders to provide feedback and recommendations to accelerate industry development in water power technologies. The Hydropower Peer Review will be virtual and open to the public.
View past WPTO Peer Review reports and presentations.
2022 Hydropower Peer Review Agenda
Hydropower Program Opening Plenary
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End (ET) |
Presentation Topic | Organization | Speaker |
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10:00 |
10:30 |
WPTO Overview |
WPTO |
Jennifer Garson |
10:30 |
10:45 |
Peer Review Introduction |
WPTO |
Ali Hewett |
10:45 |
11:30 |
Hydropower Program Review |
WPTO |
Tim Welch |
11:30 |
11:40 AM |
BREAK |
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11:40 |
12:05 |
Data Access, Analytics, and Workforce Development Activity Area Overview |
WPTO |
Corey Vezina, Allison Johnson |
12:05 |
12:35 |
Hydropower, STEM, and Workforce Development |
NREL |
Elise DeGeorge |
12:35 |
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ADJOURN AND MOVE TO ACTIVITY AREA BREAKOUTS (Days 2-4) |
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Innovations for Low-Impact Hydropower Growth
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End (ET) |
Presentation Topic |
Organization |
Speaker |
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10:00 AM |
10:30 AM |
Innovations for Low-Impact Hydropower Growth Activity Area Overview |
WPTO |
Katie Jackson |
10:30 AM |
11:00 AM |
Groundbreaking Hydro and I AM Hydro Prizes |
NREL, ORNL, WPTO |
Tessa Greco, Scott DeNeale, Katie Jackson |
11:00 AM |
11:25 AM |
The Design and Development of a Composite Hydropower Turbine Runner |
Composite Technology Development, Inc. |
Paul Fabian |
11:25 AM |
11:35 AM |
BREAK |
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11:35 AM |
11:50 AM |
Cold Spray Process Development for In Situ Repair and Mitigation of Cavitation Erosion |
PNNL |
Chris Smith |
11:50 AM |
12:15 |
Standard Modular Hydropower Technology Acceleration |
ORNL |
Scott DeNeale |
12:15 PM |
1:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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1:00 |
1:25 |
Restoration Hydro: A Watershed Approach to Standard Modular New Hydropower |
Natel Energy Inc. |
Abe Schneider |
1:25 |
1:50 |
Prefabricated Standard Modular Hydropower Installations for Low-Cost Small Hydropower |
Littoral Power Systems Inc |
David Duquette |
1:50 PM |
2:15 |
Small Hydro Interconnection Study |
PNNL, ORNL |
Alison Colotelo, Todd Wall, Chris O'Reilly, Hope Corsair |
2:15 |
2:40 |
Reviewer Debrief |
Reviewers |
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End |
Presentation Topic |
Organization |
Speaker |
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10:00 |
10:25 |
Development of a Modular Helical Fish Passage for Low Head Applications |
Percheron Power, LLC |
Jerry Straalsund |
10:25 |
10:50 AM |
Advanced Compact Generation Module with Fish Safe Runner Technology |
Natel Energy, Inc. |
Gregor Cadman, Sterling Watson |
10:50 |
11:15 |
Prefabricated Zero Ascend Omnispecies (ZAO) Modular Fish Passage Modules Using Advanced Manufacturing Techniques |
Littoral Power Systems Inc. |
David Duquette |
11:15 |
11:25 AM |
BREAK |
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11:25 |
11:50 AM |
A Novel Sediment Passage Module Design for Support of Standard Modular Hydropower |
Regents of The University of Minnesota |
Jeffrey Marr |
11:50 |
12:15 |
National Conduit Resource Assessment |
ORNL |
Shih-Chieh Kao |
12:15 |
1:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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1:00 |
1:25 |
Integrated Water Power Resilience |
PNNL, INL |
Juliet Homer, Shiloh Elliott |
1:25 |
1:50 |
Irrigation Modernization |
INL, PNNL |
Thomas Mosier |
1:50 |
2:15 |
Alternative Opportunities for Hydropower |
PNNL, INL |
Rajiv, Prasad, Thomas Mosier |
2:15 |
2:40 |
Cost Data Collection & Modeling for Hydropower |
ORNL |
Gbadebo Oladosu |
2:40 |
3:05 |
Reviewer Debrief |
Reviewers |
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HydroWIRES
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End |
Presentation Topic |
Organization |
Speaker |
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10:00 |
10:40 |
HydroWIRES Initiative Overview |
WPTO |
Sam Bockenhauer |
10:40 |
11:05 |
Hydropower Flexibility Framework |
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. |
Francisco Kuljevan |
11:05 |
11:30 |
Increasing Operational Flexibility of Francis Turbines at Low Head Sites, Through Analytical and Empirical Solutions |
GE Renewable Energy Hydro |
Guillaume Rudelle |
11:30 |
11:40 |
BREAK |
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11:40 |
12:05 |
Exploring Multidimensional Spatial-Temporal Hydropower Operational Flexibilities by Modeling and Optimizing Water-Constrained Cascading Hydroelectric |
Stevens Institute of Technology |
Lei Wu |
12:05 |
12:30 |
Identifying Hydropower Operational Flexibilities in Presence of Streamflow and Net-Load Uncertainty |
University of California, Irvine |
Soroosh Sorooshian and Bita Analui |
12:30 |
1:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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1:00 |
1:25 |
Geomechanical Pumped Storage |
Quidnet Energy Inc. |
Howard Schmidt |
1:25 |
1:50 |
Modeling And Optimizing Pumped Storage in A Multi-Stage Large Scale Electricity Market Under Portfolio Evolution |
University of Missouri System |
Rui Bo |
1:50 |
2:15 |
Value And Role of Pumped Storage Hydro Under High Variable Renewables |
GE Power |
Christina Bisceglia |
2:15 |
2:40 |
Predicting Unique Market Pumped Storage Significance (PUMPSS) |
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. |
Aidan Tuohy |
2:40 |
3:00 |
Reviewer Debrief |
Reviewers |
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Start |
End |
Presentation Topic |
Organization |
Speaker |
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10:00 |
10:30 |
FAST Commissioning Prize for Pumped Storage Hydropower |
NREL |
Tessa Greco |
10:30 |
10:55 |
PSH-TES Tool |
PNNL, ANL |
Mark Weimar, Patrick Balducci |
10:55 AM | 11:20 AM | HydroWIRES Topic D1: CEM Enhancements | NREL | Stuart Cohen |
11:20 |
11:30 |
BREAK |
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11:30 |
11:55 |
Value Drivers Quantification |
ANL, NREL, PNNL |
Todd Levin |
11:55 |
12:20 |
HydroWIRES Topic A: Environment-Flexibility Win-Wins |
ORNL |
Brenda Pracheil |
12:20 |
1:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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1:00 |
1:25 |
PSH Portfolio Evaluation and Innovation Study |
ANL |
Vladimir Koritarov |
1:25 PM | 1:50 PM | Life Cycle Assessment of Storage Technologies | NREL | Greg Stark |
1:50 |
2:15 |
Scope Improvements to Power Flow and Stability Models |
PNNL |
Slaven Kincic |
2:15 |
2:30 |
Reviewer Debrief |
Reviewers |
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Start |
End (ET) |
Presentation Topic |
Organization |
Speaker |
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10:00 |
10:25 |
HydroWIRES Topic C: Quantifying Reliability/Resilience |
PNNL, ANL, INL, NREL, ORNL |
Abishek Somani |
10:25 |
10:50 |
HydroWIRES Topic D2: Transmission/Storage Equivalence |
PNNL, ANL |
Jeremy Twitchell, Zhi Zhou |
10:50 |
11:15 |
Idaho Power Run-of-River Hydropower and Battery Modeling |
PNNL |
Feng Pan |
11:15 |
11:25 |
BREAK |
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11:25 AM | 11:50 AM | Hydropower Plant Controller Prototyping using Remote Hardware in the Loop | NREL | Mayank Panwar |
11:50 |
12:15 |
Integrated Hydropower and Energy Storage: Providing Essential Reliability and Ancillary Services using Individual or Coordinated Hydropower Plants |
INL, NREL |
Thomas Mosier, Vahan Gevorgian |
12:15 |
1:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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1:00 |
1:25 |
Hydropower Storage Capacity Dataset |
ORNL |
Carly Hansen |
1:25 |
1:50 |
HydroWIRES Topic B1: Enhancing the Representation of Conventional Hydropower Flexibility in Production Cost Models |
NREL, PNNL |
Greg Stark, Nathalie Voisin |
1:50 |
2:15 |
HydroWIRES Topic B2: Improving the Representation of Hydrologic Processes and Reservoir Operations in Production Cost Models |
NREL, PNNL |
Greg Stark, Nathalie Voisin |
2:15 |
2:40 |
HydroWIRES Topic D3: Forecasting |
PNNL, INL |
Nathalie Voisin, Thomas Mosier |
2:40 |
3:00 |
Reviewer Debrief |
Reviewers |
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Fleet Modernization, Maintenance, and Cybersecurity
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End |
Presentation Topic |
Organization |
Presenter |
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10:00 |
10:25 |
Fleet Modernization, Maintenance, and Cybersecurity Activity Area Overview |
WPTO |
Kyle DeSomber |
10:25 |
10:50 |
Digital Twin |
PNNL ORNL |
Osman Ahmed, Hong Wang |
10:50 |
11:15 |
Hydropower Fleet Intelligence |
ORNL |
Pradeep Ramuhalli |
11:15 |
11:25 |
BREAK |
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11:25 |
11:50 |
Cybersecurity Value-At-Risk Framework |
NREL, ANL |
Anuj Sanghvi |
11:50 |
12:15 |
Hydropower Cyber-Physical Reference Framework |
PNNL, ANL, NREL |
Ken Ham |
12:15 |
1:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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1:00 |
1:25 |
Hydropower Cybersecurity Risk/State of Fleet |
PNNL |
Marie Whyatt |
1:25 |
1:50 |
Hydropower Fleet Cybersecurity Response and Recovery |
PNNL |
Darlene Thorsen |
1:50 |
2:15 |
Reviewer Debrief |
Reviewers |
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Environmental and Hydrologic Systems Science
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End |
Presentation Topic |
Organization |
Speaker |
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10:00 AM |
10:30 AM |
Environmental and Hydrologic Systems Science Activity Area Overview | WPTO | Dana McCoskey |
10:30 |
10:55 |
A Real-time and Autonomous Water Quality Monitoring System |
PNNL |
Daniel Deng |
10:55 |
11:20 |
Shad Tag Development |
PNNL |
Daniel Deng |
11:20 |
11:30 |
BREAK |
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11:30 |
12:00 |
Fish Protection Prize |
NREL, WPTO |
Tessa Grecco, Dana McCoskey |
12:00 |
12:25 |
Reviewer Debrief |
Reviewers |
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Start |
End |
Presentation Topic |
Organization |
Speaker |
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10:00 |
10:25 |
Demonstrating Value of River Data Aggregation and Visualization Capabilities |
PNNL |
Kyle Larson |
10:25 |
10:50 |
GMLC Water Risk for the Bulk Power System: Asset to Grid Impacts |
NREL, ORNL |
Ariel Miara |
10:50 |
11:15 |
Methane Emissions |
ORNL |
Natalie Griffiths |
11:15 |
11:25 |
BREAK |
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11:25 |
11:50 |
FERC eLibrary |
PNNL |
James Bradford, Bo Saulsbury |
11:50 |
12:15 |
Hydro Fleet Database Development and Analyses (HydroSource) |
ORNL |
Debjani Singh |
12:15 |
12:35 |
Reviewer Debrief |
Reviewers |
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