Relicensing can be an opportunity to mitigate project impacts, enhance and/or develop recreational amenities, and provide other public benefits, while also providing valuable energy resources to consumers.
This webinar will introduce two tools to help practitioners during the licensing process.
The first tool is a simple spreadsheet that roughly calculates the value of water that would bypass the turbines to meet non-power public benefits.
The second tool is a joint effort by the Department of Energy and American Whitewater that will use hourly pricing to more accurately value energy from hydropower projects and the cost of flows for fish, wildlife, recreation, and other ecological and social needs.
Learning Objectives:
- Provide practitioners with the ability to present a rationale that supports their desired mitigation measures.
Presenters: Dave Steindorf, American Whitewater; Kevin Lewis, National Park Service; Dr. Mucun Sun, Idaho National Laboratory; Tyler Phillips, Idaho National Laboratory
