Financing Hydro Projects
STS Consultants, Ltd. is a consulting engineering firm with expertise in the Hydraulics/Hydrology area. Boulevard Bank is a major commercial bank in Chicago, Illinois. This paper elaborates...
Financial Engineering for Small Hydropower Development
Despite the current impact of new tax laws, there are some creative approaches that the engineer and banker can use to assist development teams in successfully completing high-quality...
Current Financing Trends in Hydroelectric Development
The paper presents the author's view of current financing trends in the hydroelectric project development industry. These events are described in the context of the author's...
Issues and Problems in Negotiating Hydro Financing
Two basic approaches have been used to finance privately sponsored hydro projects: a sale-leaseback transaction, and a limited partnership. Both structures involve the transfer of the...
Need for Power Analysis: The Technical, Economic, and Financial Interrelationships
The Susitna Hydroelectric Project is one of the largest hydroelectric projects to be brought before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) by an applicant seeking the issuance...
Risk Sharing in Project Development
This paper reviews some of the areas in which attention to detail can make the contractual relationship more positive and lead to a better project. Subjects covered include: selecting...
Analysis of Hydropower Cost Adjustments in the Southeast
This paper consists of: (1) an analysis of the current cost sharing for hydroelectricity production arrangements for the Federal projects currently classified as those whose electrical...
The Diamond Fork Power Development Experience
Federal water development agencies are, to varying degrees, currently seeking financing partnership arrangements with states and other non-federal entities for up-front construction and...
A Cost-Sharing Alternative for Federal-Private Water Projects
A proposed cost-sharing alternative for financing of a joint Federal-State multipurpose water project is presented. The philosophy of recent and present Federal administrations on non-Federal...
Commensurate with the Scope of the Project: Where Does the Project Environment End?
This paper seeks to contribute to a common understanding by considering the definition of project scope in the context of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulations governing...
Observations and Experiences of Bulb Turbines
This article gives a short historical review of the introduction, construction and development of bulb turbine plants in Sweden. The article relates some of the experiences of the designers,...
Design of the Tunnel System for the Terror Lake Hydroelectric Project
The Terror Lake Hydroelectric Project, Kodiak, Alaska, contains a 5-mile-long (8. 1 Km) power tunnel with supplementary stream diversions entering it by two shafts along its alignment....
Hoover Dam Plus Fifty Years Equals El Cajon Dam
The completion of El Cajon arch dam on the fiftieth anniversary of the completion of Hoover Dam has given the opportunity to compare design and construction of two concrete arch dams constructed...
Sherman Island Hydro Cofferdam
The design and construction of an eight hundred foot long by sixty-five foot high cofferdam is discussed. The cofferdam was located to permit major renovation of the existing downstream...
Nanpil River Hydropower Project Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
The Nanpil River Hydropower Project is a 1600 KW run-of-the-river hydropower project located on the tropical island of Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. The hydropower project will...
Specification Writing for Small Hydro-Generators
For small hydro projects, it is all too common for the spec writer to use a convenient off-shelf spec usually written for a much larger unit. Minor modifications (primarily ratings) are...
Safety of Dams Activities in the Bureau of Reclamation Lower Colorado Region
In the Lower Colorado Region of the Bureau of Reclamation (BuRec), there are presently eight BuRec dams and one Bureau of Indian Affairs dam being modified or studied for modification...
Infrastructure Development and Turbine Building
Aggressive development schedules which characterize many projects imply a degree of construction management know-how or alternatively, may say something about the state of the industry...
Uprating Francis Turbines Provides Additional Energy
The use of existing powerhouse, penstocks, dams and unit configuration, all provide for a quick cost effective method to increase output from an existing turbine installation. This paper...
Importance of Public Consultation
Early consultation with governmental resource agencies as well as private environmental groups can mean the difference between early resolution of conflicts between developers and environmentalists...
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