Case studies of the legal and institutional obstacles and incentives to the development of small-scale hydroelectric power. Executive summary

• Main Authors: Schwartz, Larry, Wilson, William
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: 20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; 29 ENERGY PLANNING; POLICY AND ECONOMY; COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; FINANCIAL INCENTIVES; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; LEGAL ASPECTS; LOW-HEAD HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; GEORGIA; MAINE; MICHIGAN; OREGON; PENNSYLVANIA; SITE SELECTION; WASHINGTON; WISCONSIN; CENTRAL REGION; ELECTRIC POWER; ENERGY SOURCES; GREAT LAKES REGION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC REGION; PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION; POWER; POWER PLANTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES; SOUTHEAST REGION; USA; Pacific; Low Head; High Falls; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5195121; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5195121; https://doi.org/10.2172/5195121

This Executive Summary presents observations, conclusions, and recommendations developed from the completion of five (5) case studies of hydroelectric sites at High Falls, Georgia; Traverse City, Michigan; Swanville Lake, Maine; Cornell, Wisconsin; and Maxwell Locks, Pennsylvania. The work was accom...