Hydropower Investment and Public-Private Ecosystem Assessment

Greg Stark; Tessa Greco; Beth Hartman; Kyle DeSomber; Aaron Levine; Michael Ingram; Stuart Cohen

doi:10.2172/2324600

Hydropower Investment and Public-Private Ecosystem Assessment

Greg Stark, Tessa Greco, Beth Hartman, Kyle DeSomber, Aaron Levine, Michael Ingram, Stuart Cohen

United States Department of Energy

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Abstract

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) commissioned this Report to evaluate the primary challenges in raising investment in medium-sized hydropower and PSH, defined as projects with five (5) to 30 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity, and to understand potential opportunities to increase mobilization of private sector investment in hydropower and PSH projects in the future. Based on stakeholder interviews, a market survey, and industry reports, this Report considers the investment and development trends and future opportunities for five hydropower project types: capacity additions, conduits, PSH (both open and closed loop), non-powered dams (NPDs), and new stream-reach development (NSD).

Original language	American English
Number of pages	121
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/2324600
State	Published - 2024

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NREL/TP-5700-87470

Keywords

hydropower
investment incentives analysis
market analysis
pumped storage hydropower

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