Hydropower Geotechnical Foundations: Executive Summary on Current Practice and Innovation Opportunities for Low-Head Applications

Technical Report · Sat Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1649016· OSTI ID:1649016

Deneale, Scott T. ^[1]; Sasthav, Colin M. ^[1]; Musa, Mirko ^[1]; Stewart, Kevin M. ^[1]; Derolph, Christopher ^[1]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The following content provides a companion executive summary of Hydropower Geotechnical Foundations: Current Practice and Innovation Opportunities for Low-Head Applications (DeNeale et al. 2020), a technical report developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Knight Piésold Consulting, with funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO). This executive summary provides a brief synopsis of the broader information contained in the technical report. This study (and the associated technical report): (1) covers background information on hydropower; (2) describes various characteristics relevant to hydropower foundations for undeveloped US streams; (3) presents the current state of practice in foundation development; (4) provides a representative assessment of conventional hydropower foundation costs and timelines; (5) addresses key challenges facing conventional hydropower foundations; and (6) presents opportunity areas and examples for innovative hydropower foundation technologies while highlighting some advances in non-hydropower industries.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1649016
• Report Number(s): ORNL/SPR-2020/1607
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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