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TIP 416: CEATI – Hydropower Operations and Planning Program (HOPIG)
Lead Companies
CEATI
Lead Researcher (s)
- Erik Pytlak, BPA
The long term strategic direction of this group will be to develop new and innovative technological approaches and options to support the role of the water manager in managing and enhancing the underlying fundamental value of the industry, and to provide a knowledge-based leading edge technological resource to assist the hydropower industry in meeting its many new challenges.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Interconnect Integration and Markets
Research Sub-Category
Hydraulic Forecasting
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
2020
- Conventional Hydro
TIP 417: CEATI – Hydropower Operations and Planning Technical Program Services
Lead Companies
CEATI
Lead Researcher (s)
- Erik Pytlak, BPA
The long term strategic direction of this group will be to develop new and innovative technological approaches and options to support the role of the water manager in managing and enhancing the underlying fundamental value of the industry, and to provide a knowledge-based leading edge technological resource to assist the hydropower industry in meeting its many new challenges.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Interconnect Integration and Markets
Research Sub-Category
Hydraulic Forecasting
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
2020
- Conventional Hydro
TIP 422: Turbine Optimization Model (TOM) development for capital investment decision making for FCRPS hydroelectric plants
Lead Companies
Hydroelectric Design Center (HDC), USACE/ BPA
Lead Researcher (s)
- Mark Parrish, HDC
- Gordon Ashby, BPA
The project will develop the Shuffled Complex Evolutionary - Turbine Optimization Model (SCE-TOM) for 5 FCRPS hydropower plants. SCE-TOM will be used in combination with other BPA economic planning tools to determine the feasibility and the most efficient timing for generator rewinds and turbine replacements at these facilities, including the optimal number of units to replace.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Powerhouse Equipment
Research Sub-Category
Turbine
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
2021
- Conventional Hydro
Toolkit for Standard EAP Exercise Development
Lead Companies
CEATI International
Lead Researcher (s)
- #0242
This toolkit guides the Emergency Action Planning (EAP) exercise design team through all the steps needed in creating a successful, comprehensive EAP exercise.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Dam or Weir
Research Sub-Category
Dam Safety
Status
complete
Completion Date
2020
- Marine Energy
Tools for Innovation
Lead Companies
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL)
Lead Researcher (s)
- Simon Geerlofs, PNNL
- Bernadette Hernandez-Sanchez, SNL
This project supports research, analysis and strategy refinement in the area of Marine Energy Materials and Manufacturing. Specifically, activities under this project include engaging with additional stakeholders, including other DOE EERE office personnel as well as external industry and university experts working in the materials and manufacturing space, to refine and finalize the draft strategy under development for WPTO on Marine Energy Materials and Manufacturing. Additionally, working with WPTO to guide oversight of FOA projects focused on materials and manufacturing R&D.
Technology Application
Marine Energy
Research Category
Technology
Research Sub-Category
Hydrokinetic
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
Expected 2022
- Conventional Hydro
Toward Improved Predictions in Ungauged Basins: Exploiting the Power of Machine Learning
Lead Companies
Upstream Tech
Lead Researcher (s)
- Frederik Kratzert
- Daniel Klotz
- Mathew Herrnegger
Long short‐term memory (LSTM) networks offer unprecedented accuracy for prediction in ungauged basins. We trained and tested several LSTMs on 531 basins from the CAMELS data set using k‐fold validation, so that predictions were made in basins that supplied no training data. The training and test data set included ∼30 years of daily rainfall‐runoff data from catchments in the United States ranging in size from 4 to 2,000 km2 with aridity index from 0.22 to 5.20, and including 12 of the 13 IGPB vegetated land cover classifications. This effectively “ungauged” model was benchmarked over a 15‐year validation period against the Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting (SAC‐SMA) model and also against the NOAA National Water Model reanalysis. SAC‐SMA was calibrated separately for each basin using 15 years of daily data. The out‐of‐sample LSTM had higher median Nash‐Sutcliffe Efficiencies across the 531 basins (0.69) than either the calibrated SAC‐SMA (0.64) or the National Water Model (0.58). This indicates that there is (typically) sufficient information in available catchment attributes data about similarities and differences between catchment‐level rainfall‐runoff behaviors to provide out‐of‐sample simulations that are generally more accurate than current models under ideal (i.e., calibrated) conditions. We found evidence that adding physical constraints to the LSTM models might improve simulations, which we suggest motivates future research related to physics‐guided machine learning.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Interconnect Integration and Markets
Research Sub-Category
Hydraulic Forecasting
Status
complete
Completion Date
2019
- Marine Energy
Towards Resolving the Risk of Turbine Collision on Fish
Lead Companies
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Lead Researcher (s)
- Lysel Garavelli
This project lays out the steps needed to understand collision risk for fish and charts a path to delivering the information needed to facilitate and accelerate permitting of marine energy projects.
Technology Application
Marine Energy
Research Category
Environmental and Sustainability
Research Sub-Category
Environmental Impact
Status
complete
Completion Date
2021
- Pumped Storage
Transforming the U.S. Market with a New Application of Ternary-Type Pumped Storage Hydropower Technology [HydroWIRES]
Lead Companies
NREL
Lead Researcher (s)
- Greg Stark, greg.stark@nrel.gov
The U.S. electrical grid is seeing a huge increase in new renewable energy (RE) generation and, at the same time, a huge amount of thermal generation retirements. This dynamic is changing the traditional operation of the grid and is placing a premium on assets that can provide fast-ramping flexible capacity. Addressing this need, the study’s goals were to assess & quantify how innovative, fast-acting advanced PSH systems can economically solve these grid integration challenges during future high RE contribution scenarios. Project focused on ternary PSH (T-PSH) and quaternary PSH (Q-PSH), coupling them with sophisticated transmission monitoring/control equipment (i.e., dynamic transmission) as a proposed solution.
Technology Application
Pumped Storage
Research Category
Interconnect Integration and Markets
Research Sub-Category
Markets
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
TBD
- Conventional Hydro
Translation of Methodology for Analysing and Managing Floating Debris at Dams and Reservoirs
Lead Companies
CEATI International
Lead Researcher (s)
- #0244
Translation into English of a Swedish methodology that was developed that can be used to analyse and categorise dam facilities in terms of their vulnerability to floating debris and provide guidance on prioritisation and choice of remedial action.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Dam or Weir
Research Sub-Category
Dam Safety
Status
complete
Completion Date
2020
- Conventional Hydro
Translation of Structural Safety of Cracked Concrete Dams
Lead Companies
CEATI International
Lead Researcher (s)
- #0246
This is the translation of a report which developed a Swedish guideline for assessing status as well as current and future security levels on a cracked concrete dam but can also function as a knowledge base for the area and contains several reference projects where the cause and effect of cracks have been studied
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Dam or Weir
Research Sub-Category
Dam Safety
Status
complete
Completion Date
2020
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