Oak Ridge National Laboratory publishes the Hydropower Market Report on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy for the benefit of industry, policymakers, and the public.
To overcome the current gaps in hydropower fleet management data, researchers at ORNL are developing data-driven best practices that can be shared with hydropower facilities to optimize value and reliability of these energy facilities.
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, or EBCI, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are exploring smaller scale, less intrusive hydropower options, including dam-less run-of-river systems.
The Conduit Hydropower Engineering, Evaluation, and Technology Acceleration (CHEETA) project seeks to improve deployment potential for conduit hydropower. It follows up on an earlier effort, the 2022 national conduit hydropower resource assessment, which found 1.4 gigawatts of total power potential in the U.S. across municipal, agricultural, and industrial conduit systems.
To create a more complete and precise picture of dissolved gases and impacts across hydropower reservoirs, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using a combination of modeling and novel field sampling techniques to quantify patterns in dissolved gases.
To develop innovations that can be successfully brought to market and to the power grid, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office (H2O) has implemented TEAMER, or the Testing Expertise and Access for Marine Energy Research program.
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have initiated a one-of-a-kind project to create the first central repository for geo-referenced and geo-attributed data on fish passage facilities at hydropower installations across the United States.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) assesses the potential to generate electricity from new hydropower operations along existing water conduits in the municipal, agricultural, and industrial sectors throughout the United States.
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory examined regulatory processes to identify opportunities to improve efficiency and remove barriers that slow or inhibit greater hydropower generation.
To ensure hydropower’s continued sustainability as a resilient, secure energy source, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office tasked Oak Ridge National Laboratory to explore how advanced manufacturing and materials could more easily and cost-effectively modernize the existing fleet and facilitate further innovations in design.