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IrrigationViz
December 29, 2025
Overview This tool helps irrigation system owners identify and prioritize investment opportunities for modernization projects and visualize the data needed…
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Hydropower Fish Passage Webmap
April 30, 2025
Overview The National Fish Passage Webmap application provides an environment that allows users to visualize information on fish passage facility…
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An Environmental Decision Support Toolkit (EDS) for Streamlining Hydropower Licensing
March 31, 2025
Overview The EDS Toolkit is a science-based tool for hydropower stakeholder collaboration designed to: The EDS Toolkit provides stakeholders with a systematic…
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Basin-Scale Relicensing Opportunity Tool
September 10, 2024
Overview This Basin-Scale Relicensing Opportunity interactive web map can assist users in identifying favorable areas for basin-wide collaboration among projects using metrics…
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HydroSource Data Explorer
September 10, 2024
Overview The HydroSource Data Explorer (HDE) is a web based geospatial application that allows users to explore and download hydropower-related…
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U.S. STREAM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
September 10, 2024
An effort to organize the nation’s 2.6 million stream reaches into groups with similar physical properties. Overview Stream environments are dynamic…
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Standard Modular Hydropower (SMH) Explorer
September 10, 2024
The SMH Explorer is a geo-visual analytics platform to inform Standard Modular Hydropower (SMH) need and design.
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Hydrological Dispatch and Analysis Tool (Hy-DAT)
April 3, 2024
Overview The Hydrological Dispatch and Analysis Tool (Hy-DAT) is a first-of-a-kind tool that provides a more accurate representation of hydropower…
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Drinking Water System Energy Resilience Value Estimator
February 1, 2024
Overview The Drinking Water System Energy Resilience Value Estimator is designed to calculate the internal system costs, and the costs…
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Non-Powered Dam Hydropower Development and Ranking Opportunity Tool
September 1, 2023
Overview The Non-Powered Dam Hydropower Development and Ranking Opportunity Tool (NPD HYDRO), allows users to prioritize or rank NPD sites…
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Pumped Storage Hydropower Cost Model and Life Cycle Assessment
September 1, 2023
Overview The pumped storage hydropower (PSH) cost model and life cycle assessment (LCA) tool estimates total direct and indirect capital…
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Cybersecurity Value-at-Risk Framework
February 1, 2023
Overview The Cybersecurity Value-at-Risk Framework provides an industry-accessible, self-guided, automated tool that will allow hydropower plant managers to identify best…
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Pumped Storage Hydropower Supply Curves
May 1, 2022
Overview NLR has developed an interactive map and geospatial data showing pumped storage hydropower (PSH) supply curves, which characterize the…
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North American Renewable Integration Study (NARIS)
June 1, 2021
Overview North American Renewable Integration Study (NARIS) informs grid planners, utilities, industry, policymakers, and other stakeholders about opportunities for a…
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Pumped Storage Hydropower Valuation Tool
March 1, 2021
Overview This decision tree-based tool provides step-by-step valuation guidance for pumped storage hydropower (PSH) developers, plant owners or operators, and…
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