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Title: How can hydro get a fair shake

Abstract

There is no arguing that hydroelectric power has enormous assets. In a period of concern about air quality, it is clean; in a time of results-oriented management, it is cost-effective and efficient to operate; in an era of limited resources, it is sustainable. To a true believer in hydro and its worth, these attributes say enough. The value of hydropower may be less clear outside the realm of the faithful...in the executive suite of an electric utility with multiple types of generation, for example. The utility's system planners, financial officers, and chief executive may concede the theoretical benefit of being clean, efficient, and renewable but also may need more information before they agree the qualities are valuable. In the end, a generating plant has to be valued in the [open quotes]currency[close quotes] of the utility that needs the power, its customers, and its regulators. The fact that hydropower's benefits and costs are not always accurately weighed against those of other generating resources is both a testament to the inadequacies of traditional costing approaches and a challenge to those who want to see the analysis process improved.

Authors:
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
5460809
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Hydro Review; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 12:7; Journal ID: ISSN 0884-0385
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
13 HYDRO ENERGY; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; LICENSING PROCEDURES; LICENSING REGULATIONS; LIFE-CYCLE COST; PUMPED STORAGE POWER PLANTS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE GOVERNMENT; US FERC; ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES; COST; ECONOMICS; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; PEAKING POWER PLANTS; POWER PLANTS; REGULATIONS; US DOE; US ORGANIZATIONS; 130500* - Hydro Energy- Economic, Industrial, & Business Aspects

Citation Formats

Byers, W. How can hydro get a fair shake. United States: N. p., 1993. Web.
Byers, W. How can hydro get a fair shake. United States.
Byers, W. 1993. "How can hydro get a fair shake". United States.
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abstractNote = {There is no arguing that hydroelectric power has enormous assets. In a period of concern about air quality, it is clean; in a time of results-oriented management, it is cost-effective and efficient to operate; in an era of limited resources, it is sustainable. To a true believer in hydro and its worth, these attributes say enough. The value of hydropower may be less clear outside the realm of the faithful...in the executive suite of an electric utility with multiple types of generation, for example. The utility's system planners, financial officers, and chief executive may concede the theoretical benefit of being clean, efficient, and renewable but also may need more information before they agree the qualities are valuable. In the end, a generating plant has to be valued in the [open quotes]currency[close quotes] of the utility that needs the power, its customers, and its regulators. The fact that hydropower's benefits and costs are not always accurately weighed against those of other generating resources is both a testament to the inadequacies of traditional costing approaches and a challenge to those who want to see the analysis process improved.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5460809}, journal = {Hydro Review; (United States)},
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year = {Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1993},
month = {Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1993}
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