Hydropower flexibility valuation tool for flow requirement evaluation
Highlights Examined value of hydropower flow flexibility using a two-stage optimization method. Revenue is more sensitive to ramping constraints than minimum flow constraints. Demonstrated the impacts of hydropower plant configuration changes on revenue. Evaluated...
Effort to Restore North Carolina’s Oconaluftee River Advances
Contact: Molly Phillips, Mainspring Conservation Trust, 828.524.2711 or mphillips@mainspringconserves.org Chuck Ahlrichs, Northbrook Carolina Hydro II, LLC 480.551.1221 or cahlrichs@nbenergy.com Erin McCombs, American Rivers, 828.649.7887 or...
Hydropower’s Role in a Changing Energy Market
This 101 talk on how regional electric grids and markets work, and how hydro fits in to the electricity landscape, will help river advocates engage in discussions about project economics in a meaningful way during relicensing, and begin to think about coming issues for hydropower in the continuing energy transition.
The Role of Hydropower in a Clean Energy Economy
The Hydropower Reform Coalition is committed to fighting climate change, and to doing so in a way that prioritizes and increases the resilience of ecosystems and local communities. Hydropower has a place in a 100% clean energy economy, but that place must be carefully determined to both ensure that hydropower assets accelerate climate change mitigation and to minimize the worst impacts from this energy source.