ON DEMAND VIDEOS
The HYDRO+ free monthly series offers a variety of opportunities to meet the needs of power industry professionals in addition to each of the energy markets we serve including – virtual experiences, timely content and education sessions, peer-to-peer networking, vendor product and service demonstrations and matchmaking assistance between decision-makers and sellers. Check out the schedule below:
After you join the community and make your account, view the ‘Event Agenda’ to learn more about these sessions and add them to your personal schedule. In order to access the session during the live event, you must add the sessions to your agenda by selecting the calendar icon. If you do this, you’ll receive reminders about the sessions before they begin with a link to view the session live.
To view past sessions on demand, you need to view the ‘Event Agenda’ and scroll up in the scheudule. Once in the session you wish to watch, you type in your email address where prompted and the video will start to play. You have to make an account to view the on demand sessions.
September 2021 Series:
Sessions from the International Hydropower Association’s World Hydropower Congress
August 2021 Series: Civil Works and Dam Safety
Civil Works and Dam Safety: Using Drones and UAVs for Dam Inspection
Key Takeaways:
- How UAVs can be used as an alternative option for conducting inspections at hydroelectric facilities.
- Understand why project owners use this technology and the results they’ve seen.
July 2021 Series: Equipment and Technology
June 2021 Series: Market Trends
May 2021 Series: New Development
Equipment and Technology: Bearing Spotlight
Key Takeaways:
- Tap the knowledge of our expert speakers to help solve any issues around bearings at hydro plants.
- Suggestions for how workers in hydroelectric plants can execute their jobs more effectively and educating the industry on this important topic.
Market Trends: Digitalization Case Studies for Hydropower
Key Takeaways:
- How retrofitting projects with digital components can improve annual generation by 11% and reduce costs
- The “human factor” role in the development and deployment of digital solutions to support plant operations and maintenance
- Digitalization initiatives at Enel, an Italian utility with 1,500 hydro units in 12 countries
New Development: Insights and Perspectives from Developers
Key Takeaways:
- The long timeline for project development
- Financing Issues
- Construction challenges
- Environmental and social considerations
- Various other aspects of project development
April 2021 Series: Around the World with Hydro
Water and Environment: Can Climate Change Impact PMP Estimates at Hydro Dams
Key Takeaways:
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Explore the likelihood of changes to probable maximum precipitation (PMP) estimates due to a warming climate.
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How changes to the PMP could have significant ramifications on the satisfactory performance of dam spillways at hydropower projects during a PMP event.
Around the World: Brazil Update
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Hear testimonials from representatives and specialists with extensive experience in the development, construction and operation of hydroelectric plants in Brazil.
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The benefits of hydroelectric plants for developing countries.
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The current scenario of hydropower and its importance in the post-pandemic economic recovery.
Operations and Maintenance: Oil Containment and Mitigation
Key Takeaways:
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Methods to contain oil and best work practices.
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Equipment conversion to reduce oil volumes.
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Experience with environmentally acceptable lubricants.
Around the World: China Update
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Key Takeaways:
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Experts discuss the status of hydropower in China and future expansion plans.
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The role of hydro in China’s overall generation mix.
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Tapping into China’s significant remaining hydropower potential.
Top Planning Tips for Laser Tracker Use During an Overhaul
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- Make the most of your laser tracker when overhauling a vertical hydroelectric turbine by effectively planning for its time on site.
- With proper planning, laser trackers accurately provide an excellent all-in-one solution for reassembly alignment.
- Laser trackers can also verify the roundness and concentricity of the generator rotor and can be used to set up/align any in-place machining equipment.
Policies and Regulations: U.S. Hydropower Relicensing Trends and Updates
Key Takeaways:
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Industry experts discuss relicensing trends and the impacts of recent regulatory updates and decisions.
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Observations as to how COVID-19 has influenced various aspects of the relicensing process.
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Relicensing in the post-Electric Consumer Protection Act era.
Debris Control and Handling at Water Intakes and Diversions
Key Takeaways:
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See trash rake and trash rack installations that control and handle debris at your water intake.
Hydro Bearings: Dealing with Cold Starts and Hot Operation
Key Takeaways:
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This presentation covers two aspects of abnormal conditions that can occur after startup.
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Recommendations on the use of temperature monitoring to detect operating temperatures which indicate potential, or evolving, damage.
Challenges and Technical Roles of the Hydropower & Pumped Industry with Future Renewable Penetration in the U.S.
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Learn about the technical and developmental challenges facing the hydropower industry as it aims to support future clean power carbon-free emission.
Renewable Energy is NOT GREEN. It’s Blue!
Key Takeaways:
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The blending of proven technologies to produce electricity on any body of water 24/7 without a dam, sun, wind, tides, or waves.
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Sited on land or sea, Posiedon is scalable from 1 KWh to 100 MWh to address peak demands.
Waterpower Hydro Basics: Day-to-Day Operations
Key Takeaways:
- Gain an insider’s view of the critical on-the-ground perspective, including the role of the project operator and operational challenges.
- Hear a project operator’s insights on compliance requirements and spill requirements.
February 2021 Series: Equipment and Technology
March 2021 Series: O&M
Equipment and Technology: Advancements in Controls and Pumped-Storage Turbine Design
Key Takeaways:
- The latest technology advancements in hydropower, for both controlling and designing vital generating equipment
- How controls, instrumentation and SCADA have advanced over the past 20 years
- The results of a cooperative research project into the fluid mechanical phenomena leading to the occurrence of instabilities in pump-turbines in pump mode
Operations & Maintenance: Condition-Based Maintenance: Fixin’ To Break … NOT!
Key Takeaways:
- Information on the implementation and use of condition-based maintenance monitoring systems and analysis tools for hydroelectric facilities
- Methods of data analysis and reduction also will be discussed
January 2021 Series: New Development & Civil Works and Dam Safety
New Development: Increasing Value during Refurbishment
Key Takeaways:
- Representatives from several Canadian hydropower producers who are planning for significant refurbishments in the years ahead will share their experiences, best practices and lessons learned
- More frequent extreme weather events are influencing investment decisions.
Silt Monitoring for Equipment Life and Environmental Compliance
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Key Takeaways:
- Silt loading and profile information, whether from the Rittmeyer flowmeter or other sensors, can be integrated into operating plans to manage wear and tear compared to the prevailing energy rates (run/don’t run decision), manage environmental impacts and compliance, and even provide a tool to manage turbine warrantees in tough installations.
Civil Works & Dam Safety: Real Life Simulation of Emergency Action Plans
Key Takeaways:
- What happened when the emergency action plan was activated at Oroville Dam?
- How accurate are the assumptions we make in the emergency action plans on decisions, implementation and effectiveness?
- How would this work for our time-sensitive EAPs?
December 2020 Series: Hiring for Hydro
Market Trends: Attracting, Hiring and Retaining New Talent for Hydropower
Key Takeaways:
- What is involved in attracting, hiring and retaining the next generation of the hydro workforce?
- Valuable insights for anyone hiring, looking to enter the industry or even considering a job change
Market Trends: State of the Hydroelectric Power Industry Globally.
Key Takeaways:
- Where hydropower stands today
- Trends that may continue
- New trends that are developing
- What the future is likely to hold for this exciting industry.
November 2020 Series: HYDROVISION Exchange
Keynote with John Hairston
Key Takeaways:
- John Hairston, interim administrator and chief executive officer of the Bonneville Power Administration, which markets wholesale electrical power from 31 federal hydroelectric projects, one nonfederal nuclear project and several small nonfederal power plants in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
Stop Mussels from Muscling Their Way In
Key Takeaways:
- Detailed discussion with the retired environmental compliance manager at Reclamation who oversaw this work and a technical sales representative from the company that manufactured the UV technology used
- Learn more about how to protect turbines and heat exchangers from mussel fouling
Energy Storage: Novel Approaches for Integrated Storage Systems
Key Takeaways:
- The integration of three technologies into a single facility that can simultaneously provide clean energy generation, energy storage and fresh water
- How hybrid energy storage systems composed of Li-ion batteries and ultracapacitors can enable integrated hydropower and hybrid energy storage systems to provide fast frequency and voltage regulation
Water/Energy Challenges – Current and Future Roles for Water Resources and Hydropower
Key Takeaways:
- Studying relevant processes involving the atmospheric, terrestrial, oceanic and human system components and their interactions and feedbacks across local, regional and global scales
- Improving the predictability of the water-energy cycle and reducing associated uncertainties
- Meeting future water-energy and environmental demands
Knowledge Hub: Circuit Breaker Monitoring 101.
Key Takeaways:
- Identifying and associating changes in control circuit waveform capture with specific mechanism malfunctions
- Common major and minor mis-operations
- Effects of breaker malfunction on adjacent equipment
Hydro Bearing Maintenance Solutions
Key Takeaways:
- Strategies and techniques you can employ to incrementally improve your thrust bearing without having to replace the entire bearing
- Problems that may arise after an overhaul or upgrade that has placed additional loads on a bearing
Women with Hydro Vision
Key Takeaways:
- The importance of diversity, equity and inclusion
- The winner of the 2020 Julie Keil scholarship for women
- Learn about the Women in Hydropower mentorship program
Innovative Flood Control Applications to Mitigate Future Flooding.
Key Takeaways:
- Obermeyer has adapted its water control gate technology to address the increasing need for flood protection
- Learn how technology can now be used to replace in-channel fixed weirs
Market Trends: Novel Cybersecurity Capabilities to Meet Hydropower’s Evolving Challenges
Key Takeaways:
- The evolution of the industry
- New resources that can be brought to bear on these challenges
Utility Executive Roundtable
Key Takeaways:
- Perspectives from executives at power producing companies
- Current market conditions
- Pandemic planning and recovery
- The path forward for the global hydroelectric power industry
Policies and Regulations: Recent Regulatory Developments: Navigating Uncertainty in an Evolving Landscape
Key Takeaways:
- The challenges, opportunities and next steps related to recent developments with the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and National Environmental Policy Act
Knowledge Hub: Silt Monitoring for Equipment Life and Environmental Compliance Optimization
Key Takeaways:
- The Rittmeyer solution with examples given on how to monitor silt across the entire penstock, providing more information than a simple turbidity sensor, all with no additional hardware costs.
Operations and Maintenance: Water Passage/Conveyance Systems: Moving It Along
Key Takeaways:
- The importance of having a complete understanding of condition evaluation as it relates to the operation and maintenance of water passages and conveyances
