US Hydropower & Environmental Mitigations: A 1998-2023 inventory of mitigation measures inside licensing documents
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) license documents mandate environmental mitigation requirements to reduce potential environmental damage caused by non-federal hydropower facilities. This StoryMap showcases a dataset that leveraged Natural Language Processing (NLP) to inventory environmental mitigations from 465 FERC licenses that were issued from 1998-2023 (Ruggles et al, 2025). Users can explore trends in mitigation requirements over time and space with interactive maps and are presented with a demonstration use case.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 3001501
- Report Number(s):
- 1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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