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View article: Small Hydropower Plant Response Improvement Using Energy Storage
Small Hydropower Plant Response Improvement Using Energy Storage Open
Small hydropower plants contribute significantly to global power generation. However, due to limited storage, these can have low ramping capacity and poor load-frequency regulation. These can prevent small hydropower plants from being used…
View article: Frequency Response Improvement in a Standalone Small Hydropower Plant Using Battery Storage
Frequency Response Improvement in a Standalone Small Hydropower Plant Using Battery Storage Open
This paper proposes a control architecture for frequency, current, and voltage control that facilitates using battery storage to improve the response of standalone small hydropower plants. The frequency controller uses rate-of-change of fr…
View article: NPD Hydro
NPD Hydro Open
This tool, the Non-Powered Dam Hydropower Development and Ranking Opportunity Tool (NPD HYDRO), allows users to prioritize or rank NPD sites for future development based on user-defined priorities. Benefits can be evaluated in several cate…
View article: Review of Irrigation Modernization and Conduit Hydropower Funding and Support Programs
Review of Irrigation Modernization and Conduit Hydropower Funding and Support Programs Open
This memo reviews and evaluates existing funding mechanisms that support off-farm irrigation modernization and conduit hydropower projects. Irrigation modernization projects, both on and off-farm, can be challenging to move through plannin…
View article: Hydropower Potential at Non-Powered Dams: A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Tool Based on Grid, Community, Industry, and Environmental Impacts
Hydropower Potential at Non-Powered Dams: A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Tool Based on Grid, Community, Industry, and Environmental Impacts Open
Non-powered dams (NPDs) are dams that do not include hydraulic turbine (hydropower) equipment. Currently, there are more than 80,000 such dams in the United States, which provide a variety of non-energy benefits, including flood control, w…
View article: Complementarity of Renewable Energy-Based Hybrid Systems
Complementarity of Renewable Energy-Based Hybrid Systems Open
Increased attention has focused on scenarios of rapid and deep decarbonization of the U.S. electricity supply, with least-cost solutions typically involving significant expansion of renewable energy, energy storage, and transmission assets…
View article: Data on temporal complementarity of hybrid renewable energy systems [SWR-23-09]
Data on temporal complementarity of hybrid renewable energy systems [SWR-23-09] Open
These datasets describe multiple facets of the temporal complementarity of co-located hybrid renewable energy systems throughout the United States. Several metrics characterizing the complementarity of generation profiles are provided on a…
View article: Hydropower flexibility valuation tool for flow requirement evaluation
Hydropower flexibility valuation tool for flow requirement evaluation Open
Timing of generation is becoming more and more valuable. This creates greater potential tension between environmental and power system objectives since both systems require their own flow patterns. Identifying win–win outcomes in this cont…
View article: Designing Hydropower Flows to Balance Energy and Environmental Needs (HydroWIRES Topic A Final Project Report)
Designing Hydropower Flows to Balance Energy and Environmental Needs (HydroWIRES Topic A Final Project Report) Open
Hydropower is expected to play a new role in the US electricity grid as more variable renewable energy sources like wind and solar come online. Wind and solar generation increase fluctuations in electrical supply increasing the value of fl…
View article: Hydropower Modeling Gaps in Planning and Operational Studies
Hydropower Modeling Gaps in Planning and Operational Studies Open
In the evolving power system, where new renewable resources displace continually conventional generation and hydro becomes a single traditional resource that is fully controllable, it is timely to examine hydrogeneration’s role in the powe…
View article: Enhancing Local Grid Resilience with Small Hydropower Hybrids: Proving the concept through demonstration, simulation, and analysis with Idaho Falls Power
Enhancing Local Grid Resilience with Small Hydropower Hybrids: Proving the concept through demonstration, simulation, and analysis with Idaho Falls Power Open
Large hydropower, connected to the transmission system and typically possessing significant ability to balance grid frequency, has long been central to black start plans in regions where it is present. Small hydropower possesses most of th…
View article: Power Hardware-In-the-Loop Hydropower and Ultracapacitor Hybrid Testbed
Power Hardware-In-the-Loop Hydropower and Ultracapacitor Hybrid Testbed Open
Widespread deployment of a proof-of-concept technological solution for power system performance improvement can be accelerated through onsite demonstration and pilot projects. Digital real-time simulation with power hardware-in-the-loop in…
View article: An Operational Resilience Metric to Evaluate Inertia and Inverter-based Generation on the Grid
An Operational Resilience Metric to Evaluate Inertia and Inverter-based Generation on the Grid Open
In an effort to reduce carbon emissions and curtail the effects of climate change there has been considerable effort to increase the penetration of inverter-based renewable energy sources. The adoption of renewable generation over conventi…
View article: Modeling a Bulb-Style Kaplan Unit Hydrogovernor and Turbine in Mathworks-Simulink and RTDS-RSCAD
Modeling a Bulb-Style Kaplan Unit Hydrogovernor and Turbine in Mathworks-Simulink and RTDS-RSCAD Open
Some run-of-river (ROR) hydropower plants use a horizontal bulb-style Kaplan turbine. This turbine and the corresponding governor are not represented well in standard high-fidelity power-system modeling platforms. This paper presents the c…
View article: Dynamic Frequency Regulation Improvement in Hydropower-Hybrid System using Variational Mode Decomposition
Dynamic Frequency Regulation Improvement in Hydropower-Hybrid System using Variational Mode Decomposition Open
Providing frequency response, especially fast frequency response such as Red D in the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection (PJM) market, is challenging for many generation plants to deliver on their own. If they have adequate f…
View article: Resilience Analytics for Interdependent Power and Water Distribution Systems
Resilience Analytics for Interdependent Power and Water Distribution Systems Open
The occurrence of large-scale outages in power distribution systems (PDSs) caused, for instance, by extreme weather events has raised concerns on the cascading impact of the power outages on the resilience of other critical infrastructures…
View article: Resilience Of Microgrids With Adaptive Capacity And Inertia
Resilience Of Microgrids With Adaptive Capacity And Inertia Open
Resilience of Microgrids with Adaptive capacity and Inertia calculates the maximum size of a disturbance a microgrid could withstand before frequency limits are violated. The results are based on power generation assets in the microgrid an…
View article: Hydropower’s Contributions to Grid Reliability and Resilience
Hydropower’s Contributions to Grid Reliability and Resilience Open
This is the final report from the project. The report presents results from data and simulation based analyses of hydropower resources' contributions to grid reliability and resilience.
View article: Idaho Falls Power Black Start Field Demonstration (Preliminary Outcomes Paper)
Idaho Falls Power Black Start Field Demonstration (Preliminary Outcomes Paper) Open
This April 2021 field demonstration builds upon a 2017 field demonstration in which it was determined IFP’s HPPs, on their own, can support islanded black start and operation up to 2.5 MW loading. Modeling and hardware-in-the-loop testing …
View article: Pumped Storage Hydropower Valuation Guidebook: A Cost-Benefit and Decision Analysis Valuation Framework
Pumped Storage Hydropower Valuation Guidebook: A Cost-Benefit and Decision Analysis Valuation Framework Open
As an energy storage technology, pumped storage hydropower (PSH) supports various aspects of power system operations. However, determining the value of PSH plants and their many services and contributions to the system has been a challenge…
View article: Hydro + Storage Sizing Tool
Hydro + Storage Sizing Tool Open
The Hydro + Storage Sizing Tool recommends battery sizes and configurations to maximize financial performance of a battery investment that is integrated with a hydropower plant for a facility participating in a competitive electricity mark…
View article: Bulb-style Kaplan Turbine - Run-of-the-river (ror) Hydro Governor And Turbine Model
Bulb-style Kaplan Turbine - Run-of-the-river (ror) Hydro Governor And Turbine Model Open
This software package includes hydro governor and turbine models developed in Simulink (Mathworks Inc.) and RSCAD (RTDS Technologies) for low-head bulb-style Kaplan turbine hydropower plants. The model developed in Simulink has been design…
View article: Hydrogenerate: Open Source Python Tool To Estimate Hydropower Generation Time-series
Hydrogenerate: Open Source Python Tool To Estimate Hydropower Generation Time-series Open
Hydropower is one of the most mature forms of renewable energy generation. The United States (US) has almost 103 GW of installed, with 80 GW of conventional generation and 23 GW of pumped hydropower [1]. Moreover, the potential for future …