Hydroelectric Power

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Thought leadership

Making Renewable Energy Usable Energy

How do you make hydroelectric power generation a key component of your energy transition strategy?

Exponent helps clients develop and maintain hydroelectric capacity to optimize opportunities to generate, transmit, and store renewable energy.

Create data-informed water resource management

Climate change and shifting regulations are generating new hydroelectric energy challenges, such as safeguarding water quality and availability, protecting infrastructure, and addressing threats like invasive species — all while maintaining vital habitats for endangered species. Whether conducting hydraulic and hydrologic analyses to assist clients with water resource planning, improving water quality and responding to regulatory requirements, or addressing complex water rights issues with competing uses, Exponent helps clients adapt to climate change and other sustainability challenges.

Improve the overall performance of your hydroelectric power infrastructure or pumped storage systems

Pumped storage hydropower is critical for reliable on-call sources of hydroelectric energy. Exponent's multidisciplinary energy storage and battery technology consulting experts help improve energy capture, performance, reliability, and safety across all facets of grid-scale storage systems.

As the demand for on-call sources of hydroelectric power increases, it's becoming more critical to refurbish and evaluate aging infrastructure for operational and safety issues. Exponent's multidisciplinary engineering teams are uniquely positioned to provide important insights into infrastructure performance issues, material suitability, control system failures, component failure analysis, root-cause investigations, fracture mechanics, and forced outages support.

CAPABILITIES

With expertise in renewable power generation systems and energy storage, Exponent is the "go-to" solution provider for stakeholders struggling with complex technical issues in hydroelectric power generation.

We evaluate and address operational and safety issues related to power generation, transmission, and distribution — encompassing complex challenges and failures that can occur in power plant energy-generating equipment and infrastructure. Exponent's multidisciplinary team provides thorough evaluations of feasibility, design, construction, and performance as well as rehabilitation studies and root-cause failure analyses of hydroelectric power generation systems and equipment.
Whether assessing new designs, extending the life of existing equipment, or analyzing damaged components, Exponent performs reliable life predictions and fitness-for-service evaluations. These help clients establish appropriate damage control programs for new designs and life extension of existing hardware; develop or maintain assets; improve integrity management programs; and implement safe systems that comply with industry best practices and standards of care. Our extensive experience evaluating hydroelectric equipment and systems and assessing the condition and remaining life of structures, equipment, and components includes:
- Buildings and structures for all types of power plant applications
- Turbines, generators, compressors, and other large equipment
- Electric substation, transmission, and distribution systems and equipment
- Environmental impacts and regulatory requirements
In this era of climate change and shifting rainfall patterns, water resources planning has become critically important to businesses and governments looking to safeguard water availability, protect human life and infrastructure, and maintain vital habitats. Exponent provides expert hydrologic and hydraulic analyses and water consulting services, so you can identify and address hazards and plan for appropriate water supply.
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Exponent provides differentiated multidisciplinary expertise for grid-scale energy storage across all stages of the battery and energy storage product lifecycle. Our clients rely on us for our expertise in battery design, manufacturing, and testing to improve safety, reliability, and robustness. We guide and advise industry leaders on the latest in distributed energy storage with large-format batteries. Our team also provides large-format battery testing, from performing cycling tests to investigating high-energy failures.
- Battery storage installation standards interpretation and implementation at grid scale
- Performance risk assessments toward bankability, warranties, etc.
- Environmental and fire risk assessments for installation design and placement
- Battery storage site evaluations

Our Capabilities Are Unparalleled

With expertise in over 90 disciplines and hundreds of capabilities, tools, and methodologies — we get to the root of even the most complex challenges and give you the objective answers you need.

Experts

Our global and comprehensive expertise across industries gives us a deep understanding of current challenges, best industry practices, and the implications of emerging technologies.