A Multi-Year Plan for Research, Development, and Prototype Testing of Standard Modular Hydropower Technology

Technical Report · Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1343501· OSTI ID:1343501

Smith, Brennan T. ^[1]; Welch, Tim ^[2]; Witt, Adam M. ^[1]; Stewart, Kevin M. ^[1]; Lee, Kyutae ^[1]; DeNeale, Scott T. ^[1]; Bevelhimer, Mark S. ^[1]; Burress, Timothy A. ^[1]; Pracheil, Brenda M. ^[1]; Pries, Jason L. ^[1]; O'Connor, Patrick W. ^[1]; Curd, Shelaine L. ^[1]; Ekici, Kivanc ^[3]; Papanicolaou, Thanos ^[3]; Tsakiris, Achilleas ^[3]; Kutz, Benjamin ^[3]; Bishop, Norm ^[4]; McKeown, Alisha ^[5]; Rabon, Daniel ^[2]; Zimmerman, Gregory P. ^[1] ; Uria Martinez, Rocio ^[1]; McManamay, Ryan A. ^[1]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
2. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Washington, DC (United States).Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
4. Knight Piesold, Denver, CO (United States)
5. McKeown and Associates, Moberly, MO (United States)

The Multi-Year Plan for Research, Development, and Prototype Testing of Standard Modular Hydropower Technology (MYRP) presents a strategy for specifying, designing, testing, and demonstrating the efficacy of standard modular hydropower (SMH) as an environmentally compatible and cost-optimized renewable electricity generation technology. The MYRP provides the context, background, and vision for testing the SMH hypothesis: if standardization, modularity, and preservation of stream functionality become essential and fully realized features of hydropower technology, project design, and regulatory processes, they will enable previously unrealized levels of new project development with increased acceptance, reduced costs, increased predictability of outcomes, and increased value to stakeholders. To achieve success in this effort, the MYRP outlines a framework of stakeholder-validated criteria, models, design tools, testing facilities, and assessment protocols that will facilitate the development of next-generation hydropower technologies.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Defect Physics (CDP)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1343501
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-2016/102; WC0102000; CEWW099
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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