The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) is launching the Hydropower Operations Optimization (H2Os) Prize to encourage the development of new solutions that can help advance hydropower’s contribution to the grid.
Donor Name: Water Power Technologies Office
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Award
Deadline: 05/20/2022
Size of the Grant:$3,000
Details:
Hydropower provides beneficial operational flexibility in timing and storage of energy that can be better leveraged to meet grid needs. This competition challenges innovators to employ modeling, data analytics, and machine learning to schedule hydropower operations in coordination with existing grid scheduling practices while respecting water management operations and constraints.
Through the competition, WPTO seeks solutions to address key hydropower technology development goals:
- Hydropower Management Performance: Economic and environmental benefits resulting from optimal coordination of hydropower systems based on feasible and just hydropower output and electricity market energy and ancillary prices.
- Water Operations Feasibility: Hydropower scheduling solutions that respect water management operations and constraints.
- Novelty and Generality: Flexible solutions that apply to a variety of facilities within a range of modeling and institutional workflows.
Prize Structure
The H2Os Prize will run in three distinct phases of increasing complexity, all open to new competitors.
Phase 1
- Prize pool up to $10,000
- Grand prize of $3,000
- $1,000 prizes for up to 7 other winners
The three-phase competition is offering a combined cash prize pool of up to $75,000.
Who Can Participate?
The prize aims to attract and support dedicated, cross-disciplinary teams of highly capable individuals interested in contributing to solutions that will help improve the performance of hydropower system operations and spur the clean energy transition.
For more information, visit Water Power Technologies Office.
