Large‐scale electricity policies that embrace renewable resources have led to continued
investments in hydropower. Despite evolving viewpoints regarding the sustainability of large …

One-way connectivity maintained by fish passing through hydropower turbines in
fragmented rivers can be important to population dynamics, but can also introduce a new …

The Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) model is a capacity expansion and
dispatch model that is primarily used for the contiguous US electric power sector. The model …

Scalable and cost-effective solutions to renewable energy storage are essential to
addressing the world's rising energy needs while reducing climate change. As we increase …

The challenge of mitigating power loss in solar photovoltaic (PV) systems—due to dust—is
critical to the economical deployment of solar in arid regions. These areas suffer from high …

Dams impound the majority of rivers and provide important societal benefits, especially daily
water releases that enable on-peak hydroelectricity generation. Such “hydropeaking” is …

Small hydropower plants (SHPs) are rapidly sprawling, both globally and across the
Amazon's free flowing rivers, threatening provision of ecosystem services, river connectivity …

The goal of run-of-river hydropower is to produce cost-competitive renewable electricity with
minimal disruption of the natural riverine ecosystem. Modeling and feasibility analysis of …

Small-scale hydropower (SHP) is attracting international attention as a reliable and flexible
renewable energy option. In the United States, federal agencies have recently examined …

This report describes a geospatial analysis method to estimate the economic potential of
several renewable resources available for electricity generation in the United States …