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Welcome to Hydrosource

A comprehensive and unique National Energy-Water digital platform designed to help the hydropower community make data driven decisions

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The HydroSource platform is an ongoing effort by the DOE-EERE Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) towards improving the quality, functionality, dissemination and sharing of detailed and scientific hydropower data. It provides up-to-date information and reliable technical and analytical support for efficient, sustainable US hydropower generation and water management.

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2024 National Hydropower Map featured image

2024 National Hydropower Map

In this map poster, we use Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s 2022 Existing Hydropower Assets Plant Dataset to visualize the geospatial distribution and characteristics of U.S. operational hydropower plants.
U.S. Hydropower Relicensing Map Series, Version 1.1

Thematic Map Series: U.S. Hydropower Relicensing

In this thematic map series, we use Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s 2020 Existing Hydropower Assets Plant Dataset to map operational FERC-licensed hydropower plants that are anticipated to be up for relicensing in the near-term.