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HIPPO-HS: A Tool for Planning and Assessing Hybrid Resources at System Level
Lead Companies
PNNL
Lead Researcher (s)
- Feng Pan, feng.pan@pnnl.gov
The benefits of utilizing and integrating large-scale hydropower into grid operation are multi-faceted. Run-of-river (RoR) hydropower by itself has limited dispatchability, but RoR and energy storage hybrid resources have much more flexibility and controllability in their operations. At the system level, these hybrid resources will impact electricity market operations, and the full benefit will depend on how these resources are configured, controlled and represented in market models. The project team will develop a RoR and energy storage hybrid resource representation model to represent the new combination of resources in the day-ahead market. This model will be used for security-constrained unit commitment and for siting and sizing of energy storage paired with RoR in an independent system operator size system. The objective of this project is to assess the benefits of co-located and/or co-optimized hybrid RoR hydroelectric generators and energy storage resources from a system operator perspective. Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Interconnect Integration and Markets
Research Sub-Category
Hydraulic Optimization
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
TBD
- Conventional Hydro
Hydro Operations and Planning Maturity Matrix
Lead Companies
CEATI International
Lead Researcher (s)
- #0427
A tool for HOPIG members to use to benchmark their water management departments and to improve operational efficiency in the planning and management of hydroelectric generation and water resources.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Interconnect Integration and Markets
Research Sub-Category
Hydraulic Optimization
Status
complete
Completion Date
2020
- Conventional Hydro
Hydro+Storage: Accelerating Industry Deployment of Hydropower Hybrids [HydroWIRES]
Lead Companies
INL
Lead Researcher (s)
- Thomas Mosier, Thomas.mosier@inl.gov
This project seeks to develop tools and tactics that will advise current and future hydropower hybridization efforts. Hydropower hybrids—or the combined operation of hydropower with other energy generation or storage technologies—have the potential to increase value for hydropower owners while also leveraging hydropower’s non-power benefits. The project team aims to provide deployable solutions to accelerate the potential of hydro-storage hybrids. Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Interconnect Integration and Markets
Research Sub-Category
Markets
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
TBD
- Conventional Hydro
Hydropower as a Signal Processor [HydroWIRES]
Lead Companies
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Lead Researcher (s)
- Srijib Mukherjee (mukherjeesk@ornl.gov)
The Hydropower Signal Processor project will develop a data-driven methodology for classifying and comparing the water-to-energy and energy-to-water transfer functions that succinctly characterize the essential regulating and converting behavior of hydropower facilities. If one considers the time series of flow (and the specific energy conveyed by that flow) in a river as the signal, insight may be gained by examining how this inflow signal, with its myriad and periodic fluctuations, is lagged, filtered, and otherwise converted into an outflow signal by a hydropower facility, with a corresponding electric power output signal. By taking advantage of analytics from the signal processing and information flow domains, this effort will develop an efficient method for encapsulating the complex and facility-specific behavior of many hydropower facilities. The hypothesis of the project is that the transfer functions of facilities, derived from time series data, in the same archetype (run-of-river, ponding storage, and long-term storage for example) will exhibit similarities and features that can be used to classify facilities and model facilities more coherently and consistently in river and power system models, and understand which hydropower project archetypes warrant more detailed study and effort to improve their representation in models. These hydropower facility transfer functions and their facility-specific parameters derived from historical time series data will ultimately be intuitively and quantitatively linkable to hydropower parameters production cost modeling (e.g., modes of operation for hydropower facilities) and water balance modeling, routing, and scheduling. This research and proposed methodology is not intended to create yet another model for how hydropower participates in power systems; it will provide an analysis tool, lexicon, and set of concepts that enable river system and power system decision-makers and modelers to mutually convey the functionality and value of hydropower to electric power systems.
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Interconnect Integration and Markets
Research Sub-Category
Hydraulic Forecasting
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
TBD
- Conventional Hydro
Hydropower Flexibility Framework
Lead Companies
EPRI
Lead Researcher (s)
- Joe Stekli
develop an industry‐recognized methodology and framework for calculating the flexibility that hydropower assets can provide
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Interconnect Integration and Markets
Research Sub-Category
Renewable Integration
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
TBD
- Conventional Hydro
Hydropower Flexibility Framework [HydroWIRES]
Lead Companies
EPRI
Lead Researcher (s)
- Francisco Kuljevan, fkuljevan@epri.com
As the generation mix on the grid shifts towards VRE, flexibility services are increasingly in demand. Maintaining reliability and resilience in this context requires operators and regulators to be able to accurately assess exactly how much flexibility exists in the hydropower fleet. This project will develop an industry-recognized methodology and framework for calculating the flexibility that hydropower assets can provide, demonstrate the validity of the approaches and the viability of comprehensive application across the fleet, and establish a platform for future flexibility assessments. Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Interconnect Integration and Markets
Research Sub-Category
Renewable Integration
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
TBD
- Conventional Hydro
Hydropower Training Project
Lead Companies
CEATI International
Lead Researcher (s)
- #0431
4 modules developed so far: Module 1 – General Features and Role of Hydropower Projects and Systems; Module 2 – Load-Resource Analysis; Module 3 – Operating Objectives and Principles for Water Management; Module 4 – Hydrologic Data
Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Interconnect Integration and Markets
Research Sub-Category
Hydraulic Forecasting
Status
complete
Completion Date
2020
- Pumped Storage
Hydropower Valuation Guidance and Research Program Review
Lead Companies
PNNL
Lead Researcher (s)
- Patrick Balducci
The objective of this project is to advance the state of the art in assessing the value of PSH plants and their contributions to the power system. The specific goal is to develop a detailed, step-by-step valuation guidebook that PSH developers, plant owners or operators, and other stakeholders can use to assess the value of existing or potential new PSH projects.
Technology Application
Pumped Storage
Research Category
Interconnect Integration and Markets
Research Sub-Category
Renewable Integration
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
TBD
- Conventional Hydro
Hydropower Value Study [HydroWIRES]
Lead Companies
PNNL
Lead Researcher (s)
- Abhishek Somani, abhishek.somani@pnnl.gov
This project's main objective was to perform foundational work to understand recent trends in hydropower operations, future expected changes, and technical abilities of hydropower resources to adapt their operations in the future. The work products included a landscape review of the recent trends in provision of various power grid services by hydropower resources. The project was also designed to identify high-impact research questions to lay the foundation for future research. Learn more. Technology Application
Conventional Hydro
Research Category
Interconnect Integration and Markets
Research Sub-Category
Future Grid
Status
ongoing
Completion Date
TBD
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