This technical help goals to supply:
- Trade stakeholders with larger perception into the worth of hydropower hybrid configurations, which mix hydropower with one other electrical energy era or vitality storage useful resource. Technical help would supply entry to nationwide laboratory hydro hybrids sizing, planning, and operations instruments to guage hydropower hybrid alternatives.
- PSH builders and different stakeholders with nationwide laboratory experience and capabilities to assist them handle valuation hurdles in PSH venture improvement. Technical help will present entry to nationwide laboratory instruments, such because the PSH Valuation Device, and different modeling and evaluation capabilities to guage PSH improvement alternatives.
WPTO anticipates offering technical help to as much as 18 tasks which might be anticipated to final two to 3 years. Every recipient will obtain help valued between $200,000 and $1.25 million via particularly assembled technical help groups comprising subject-matter consultants from a number of nationwide laboratories. (This technical help alternative is pending future congressional appropriations.)
Potential recipients should submit statements of curiosity no later than 5 p.m. ET on April 1, 2024. The total name for technical help is on the market on-line.
