Offshore Platform Structural Verification and Requalification?The Regulator's Viewpoint of Aging Platforms
The regulator's viewpoint of the structural verification and requalification of aging offshore oil platforms is crucial to the continued production of oil and gas. For the...
A Re-Evaluation of Earthquake Hazards Within the California Coastal Zone: Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake
The 7.1 magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on October 17, 1989, had a duration of 15 seconds, and took 62 lives. Among the lessons learned from this earthquake with regard to offshore...
Earthquake Measures for California OCS Platforms
The ability of a platform to withstand earthquakes is one of the primary design factors for platforms on the California outer continental shelf (OCS). This paper discusses (1) the special...
Field Experiment of a Wave Power Extracting Caisson Breakwater
The Ministry of Transport of Japan (MOT) is currently developing a fixed-OWC wave power converter called a wave power extracting caisson. This device can be used as caissons for composite-type...
Environmental Impact of a Power Plant: A Case From a Coastal Area in Venezuela
These are the results of a eight years study in which the ecological effects of Planta Centro power plant were assessed. Many aspects were included in this study, but we concentrate here...
Phased Engineering Development and Multiple Agency Review of Public Safety Issues
Several Santa Barbara County agencies have key engineering review responsibilities for new development. The magnitude of issues raised and the level of engineering review required for...
LRFD: Still Waiting
Introduced in 1986, load and resistance factor design (LRFD), has a way to go before it becomes standard practice for steel design. LRFD-based design typically results in savings on gravity...
Evaluating the Dynamic Operating Benefits of Hydro Power Plants
In 1986, the Electric Power Research Institute asked Decision Focus to develop a new planning model to quantify the dynamic operating benefits of power technologies that offer operating...
Evaluating Hydro Relicensing Alternatives?Impacts on Power and Non-Power Values
The relicensing of 300 hydroelectric plants in the next decade involves a total capacity of about 4,000 MW - a $10 billion value. A methodology recently developed by Decision Focus Incorporated...
A Demonstration of Strobe Lights to Repel Fish
An EPRI review (EPRI, 1986) of fish protection systems for hydroelectric facilities identified strobe lights as a potential behavioral system to minimize fish entrainment. In 1988, EPRI...
Legal Strategy in Dealing with Fish and Wildlife Resource Agencies
This paper is designed to provide a strategy for negotiating with Resource Agencies during the consultation and the 10(j) process. The strategy discussed herein can be reduced to three,...
When FERC Investigates Your Unlicensed Project: A Five-Point Protection Plan
A FERC investigation into a project's jurisdictional status poses the potential for substantial risks and costs. This paper outlines a 'five-point protection...
Development of Small Hydro in Ontario
Ontario is Canada's most populous Province with approximately 10 million residents, representing 40 per cent of the country's population. The electricity needs...
Changing Legal Issues Regarding Transfer of a Plant Up for Relicensing
Part I of the Federal Power Act ('FPA') includes a little understood, but potentially powerful mechanism for encouraging the efficient development and prudent...
The Effects of Recent Legislation on Conventional, Non-Federal Hydropower
Over the past ten years, federal legislation has created competing economic incentives for the hydroelectric industry - loans and tax credit incentives to stimulate the growth of conventional,...
Streamlining Hydropower Regulation: Proposals for a New Licensing Process
Growing national concern over the environmental impacts associated with energy resources and the increasing dependence on foreign oil sources has resulted in a reawakening of interest...
Hydropower: Making Its Mark in North America
To discover what plans North American hydropower producers have for their hydroelectric resources in the 1990s, Hydro Review conducted a survey of leaders in the hydro generation industry...
Low Flow Impact on Power in the Great Lakes Basin
Approximately 94,400 mW of installed capacity in the Great Lakes Basin could be adversely affected by low levels/flows induced by drought or climatic warming. Methods for evaluating the...
Benefits and Applications of Modular Hydroelectric Pumped Storage
Hydroelectric pumped storage is the only proven and most efficient technology available for energy storage. It is used by utilities to provide peak and intermediate power and to optimize...
Feasibility of Adding Small Hydro to Federal Hydraulic Structures in the Upper Ohio River Basin
A national hydropower program exists in which non-Federal interests may develop power at Federal hydraulic structures which have that potential. This paper discusses associated considerations...
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