Basin-Scale Relicensing Opportunity

Ruggles, Thomas; Singh, Debjani; Pracheil, Brenda

doi:10.21951/Basin_Relicensing/1997351

Title: Basin-Scale Relicensing Opportunity

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Abstract

This dataset contains 1,261 hydropower facilities with associated Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) relicensing metrics. Anticipated FERC license renewal dates are summarized by river reach for observing areas of opportunities for basin-wide collaboration on environmental mitigations. Identifying rivers and basins with facilities that have similar anticipated Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) relicensing dates may be one potential indicator that multiple licensees within the same basin may be willing to collaborate on a basin-scale relicensing effort. The hydropower relicensing process requires long-term resource allocation by agencies, hydropower owner/operators, non-governmental organizations, and tribal, state, and federal governments. Basin-scale hydropower relicensing has begun to receive attention as a potential solution for reducing licensing timelines, costs, and uncertainty which can provide benefits to a broad spectrum of participants in the licensing process. This dataset contains one a data file in comma separated (*.csv) format, a data dictionary in *.csv format, and a user guide in *.pdf format. These data are also available as an interactive web map available at:

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Ruggles, Thomas; Singh, Debjani; Pracheil, Brenda

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Publication Date:: Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2023

Other Number(s):: 1

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office

Subject:: 13 HYDRO ENERGY

OSTI Identifier:: 1997351

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21951/Basin_Relicensing/1997351

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                    Ruggles, Thomas, Singh, Debjani, and Pracheil, Brenda. Basin-Scale Relicensing Opportunity.  United States: N. p., 2023. 
        Web.  doi:10.21951/Basin_Relicensing/1997351.

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                    Ruggles, Thomas, Singh, Debjani, & Pracheil, Brenda. Basin-Scale Relicensing Opportunity.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.21951/Basin_Relicensing/1997351

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                    Ruggles, Thomas, Singh, Debjani, and Pracheil, Brenda. 2023.  
"Basin-Scale Relicensing Opportunity".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.21951/Basin_Relicensing/1997351.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1997351. Pub date:Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2023

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  author       = {Ruggles, Thomas and Singh, Debjani and Pracheil, Brenda},

  abstractNote = {This dataset contains 1,261 hydropower facilities with associated Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) relicensing metrics. Anticipated FERC license renewal dates are summarized by river reach for observing areas of opportunities for basin-wide collaboration on environmental mitigations. Identifying rivers and basins with facilities that have similar anticipated Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) relicensing dates may be one potential indicator that multiple licensees within the same basin may be willing to collaborate on a basin-scale relicensing effort. The hydropower relicensing process requires long-term resource allocation by agencies, hydropower owner/operators, non-governmental organizations, and tribal, state, and federal governments. Basin-scale hydropower relicensing has begun to receive attention as a potential solution for reducing licensing timelines, costs, and uncertainty which can provide benefits to a broad spectrum of participants in the licensing process. This dataset contains one a data file in comma separated (*.csv) format, a data dictionary in *.csv format, and a user guide in *.pdf format. These data are also available as an interactive web map available at:},

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  year         = {Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2023},

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