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Water Power Program Breaking News

Read news updates online or sign up to receive periodic emails on new funding opportunities, R&D breakthroughs, new publications, and upcoming events.

OpenEI: Water Power Gateway

The Open Energy Information website allows readers to read and contribute to its collection, including critical public datasets and reports, maps and visualization tools, links to organizations working to advance the water power industries, and more.

The following resources about water power technologies are available on the program website:

Publications

Search for and view program fact sheets, reports and other publications using the Water Power Publication and Product Library. Or see these key publications:

Hydropower Basics

These pages provide basic information about hydropower, including how hydropower works and the history of hydropower.

Marine and Hydrokinetic Technology Resources

Learn more about marine and hydrokinetic technologies from the Water Power Program's hydrokinetic and hydrodynamic databases and their glossary of terms.

Marine and Hydrokinetic Environmental Webinar Series 

In 2011, the Water Power Program hosted several webinars about current marine and hydrokinetic environmental research. Presentations from these webinars are available on the Tethys site, hosted by DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Photographs 

The Photographic Information Exchange, hosted by DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has a small collection of water power photos; find them using a keyword search from the search page.

Related Links

Find information about hydropower and marine and hydrokinetic technologies, as well as current research and programs in this field.

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Content Last Updated: 04/25/2013