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Water Power Peer Review

Water Power Peer Review. Advanced Technologies and Methodologies for Small Hydropower Development. PI: Jim Gordon. Earth By Design, Inc. Email: jgrenewables@hotmail.com (541) 385-1135 November, 2011.

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Water Power Peer Review

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  1. Water Power Peer Review Advanced Technologies and Methodologies for Small Hydropower Development PI: Jim Gordon Earth By Design, Inc. Email: jgrenewables@hotmail.com (541) 385-1135 November, 2011 Demonstrating new methodologies and technology to reduce the LCOE for small, hydropower development 51-Mile Hydroelectric Power Project

  2. Purpose, Objectives, & Integration Project Purpose: • Promote cost effective, sustainable small hydropower through advanced technologies & methodologies. • Reduce the LCOE to less than $0.07 per kWh. • Capitalize on the undeveloped resource potential offered by sustainable, small hydropower • Demonstrate the advanced project technologies and assessment of its cost, performance & reliability Relation to Program Objectives: • Effectively transfer the technical and economic results of the project based on real-world construction and operations to facilitate widespread adoption of this new technology with reduced costs, times, and risks to the industry. • Demonstrate reliable, cost-effective, highly-efficient and flexible technology to capitalize on small scale hydropower opportunities previously unattainable.

  3. Technical Approach Technical Approach: Year One: Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) will be evaluating, and reporting about the model, previous deployment, physical, and Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) results during turbine manufacturing and provide comparisons in efficiency and output to other turbines. Year Two: ORNL will assist with the testing parameters, evaluate and analyze operational data of the advanced technology, evaluate the financial aspects of this project and provide a thorough report for submission to a peer-reviewed publication that conveys the experimental findings and discusses their implications for future application and implementation.

  4. Technical Approach Additional Key Issues: • Refining Levelized Cost of Energy model for hydropower using the innovative methodologies in construction and advanced technology. • Providing publications that can be used to develop cost-models for future hydro projects where previously considered cost-prohibitive due to capital costs and/or low-income. • ORNL will review and comment on the computer tools developed by CleanPower, that are based on the empiric data from model testing.

  5. Plan, Schedule, & Budget Schedule • Initiation date: 10/1/2011 • Planned completion date: 10/1/2014 • [This is one month later than previously anticipated based on date of award received] • Milestones • Preliminary Permitting, licensing, interconnection and financing by April 2012 • Manufacturing and review of equipment by October 2012 • Construction and commissioning by April 2013 • Operations and testing by September 2014 • Go/no-go decision points • Project Financing by February 2012 • Permitting and Licensing of project by April 2012 • Construction completion by January 2013 Budget: • There have been no variances in the proposed budget to date. • [Identify what portion of the project budget has been expended to date.]

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