Abstract: Hydropower asset managers use whole-life cost models to better manage risk costs and asset replacement strategies for their hydroelectric powertrain and balance of plant assets. Whole-life cost models can be simplified to ...

Abstract: One important environmental issue of hydropower in the Columbia and Snake River Basins (Pacific Northwest region of United States) is elevated total dissolved gas (TDG) downstream of a dam, which has the potential to cause ...

Abstract: Hydrodynamic, computational fluid dynamics, and finite-element modeling were performed for a novel floating membrane reservoir system design for closed-loop pumped storage hydropower application. The conceptual design, ...

Abstract: In 1991, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) began implementation of a Lake Improvement Plan to provide increased minimum flow and dissolved oxygen in releases from several dams and reservoirs in the Tennessee Valley ...

Abstract: Managing energy, water, and environmental priorities and constraints within a cascade hydropower system is a challenging multiobjective optimization effort that requires advanced modeling and forecasting tools. Within the ...

Abstract: Even after a century of development, the total hydropower potential from undeveloped rivers is still considered to be abundant in the United States. However, unlike evaluating hydropower potential at existing hydropower ...