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Below are stories about hydropower featured by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office.
WPTO has three openings in the areas of hydropower engineering, economics, and power system modeling through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Fellowship Program.
Are you interested in working in the Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO)? We’re looking for a new member to join our team as a General Engineer with WPTO’s Hydropower Program.
What’s hot this spring? Hydropower—and the recently released third edition of the U.S. Hydropower Market Report lays out a compelling case for it.
Letter from the Water Power Technologies Office Director, Alejandro Moreno
In 2019, PNNL successfully identified techniques to reduce cavitation erosion, improving performance and service life of hydropower components.
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.
The Electric Power Institute (EPRI) has successfully automated identification processes for young American eel tracked with multi-beam sonar.