Two Ways Hydro Can Win: Call it 'Renewable,' Position it as Backup to Solar and Wind

SUGAR LAND--July 12, 2017--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Changes in the U.S. Power generation fleet and transmission network may create new opportunities for pumped-storage hydroelectric projects, speakers told a hydro conference in Denver in late June. "The grid of today is not the grid of tomorrow," Tim Welch, hydropower program manager in the water power technologies offices at the U.S. Department of Energy, told attendees at the HydroVision International conference June 29. The event was sponsored by PennWell (Tulsa, Oklahoma). Within this article: Info on hydro conference's plans and forecast for hydroelectric projects.