Monday, February 5, 2024 2:00-8:00 p.m. Exhibitor Setup 1:00-4:30 p.m. Workshops
Small Hydro Workshop - Aspen Meeting Room - Click Here for Full Workshop Agenda
Fish Entrainment Studies Workshop - Cedar Meeting Room Join researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Alden Lab as they create new tools for natural resources and stakeholder negotiations. Fish entrainment studies are a routine part of stakeholder negotiations and are typically conducted as desktop studies due to the high cost of field studies. The standard reference estimates are based on field data collected during a large number of hydropower relicensings back in the 1990’s. Researchers are looking to hear from attendees about more recent field studies with additional species or life stages, advances in mitigation and fish monitoring and telemetry technologies, and quantitative techniques for creating survival estimates with entrainment data. Discovery of new entrainment study data and importing it into the previous database is a relatively straightforward update, but there are a wide variety of other updates that could be done. This workshop will provide an overview of the existing data and desktop entrainment and turbine survival study methods, and elicit feedback to understand the hydropower community’s needs and uses for these data and analysis products.
4:30-8:30 p.m. NWHA Board Meeting
Tuesday, February 6 7:00 a.m. Registration, Welcome Coffee, Exhibit Hall Opens
8:00-8:45 a.m. Welcome: NWHA President, Alene Underwood Jennifer Quan, Regional Administrator, NOAA Fisheries
08:45-10:00 Panel #1: Hydro’s Role in the Energy Transition 10:00-10:30 Networking Break 10:30-11:30 Panel #2: Howdy Neighbor! Getting to Know Your Regional Partners 11:30-12:30 Committee Meetings
Technical/Operations- Willow A Legislative/Regulatory- Willow B Small Hydro- Juniper Communications- Madrona Energy Transition- Cedar Natural Resources- Aspen (Meeting Wednesday 9:00)
12:30-02:00 Lunch: Annual Membership Meeting, Pamela E. Klatt Award Presentation 02:30-04:30 Hiring for Hydro Career Fair - Foyer 02:00-03:00 Panel #3: Pumped Storage Hydro – How Does it Compare to Other Energy Storage Technologies? 03:00-03:30 Networking Break 03:30-05:00 Panel #4: New Dam Safety FERC guidelines Chapters 15, 16, 17, and 18 – Case Studies and FERC Update 05:00-06:00 NWHA Sponsored Social: Newcomers Welcome with NWHA Staff and Board- Foyer
Wednesday, February 7 8:30 a.m. Registration, Morning Coffee, Exhibit Hall Opens
9:00-10:00 a.m. Choose one of the following Sessions Panel #5 Automation, Cyber Security, and AI, OH MY! - Grand C Panel #6 “Community” Engagement: Know Your Audience For Collaborative Decision-Making - Grand D
10:00-10:30 a.m. Networking Break 10:30-12:00 p.m. Choose one of the following Sessions Panel #7 Dam Safety: Big Project Impacts - Grand C Panel #8 Regulatory Hot Topics - Grand D
12:00-1:30 p.m. Women in Hydro Lunch or Lunch with our Exhibitors
1:30-3:00 p.m. Choose one of the following Sessions Panel #9 Hydro Projects: Why Do They Take So Long? (And How Can We Improve?) - Grand C Panel #10 Navigating the Changes in the Hydropower Landscape - Grand D
3:00-3:30 p.m. Networking Break
3:30-4:30 p.m. Choose one of the following Sessions Panel #11 Klamath Falls: History, Engineering, Funding, and Decisions in the World’s Largest Dam Removal Project - Grand C Panel #12 Powering the Future: A Fireside Chat on the Future Hydropower Workforce - Grand D 4:30-5:30 p.m. NWHA Hydro Happy Hour
5:30 p.m. Exhibit hall closes for the remainder of the conference.
Thursday, February 8 8:00 a.m. Registration/Coffee
08:30-09:30 Panel #13 Licensing and Implementation- Using the Ecosystem Based Approach 09:30-10:00 Networking Break 10:00-11:00 Panel #14 Dimensions of Equity in the Hydro Industry 11:00-12:00 Panel #15 Cultural and Historical Resource Considerations in Hydro Relicensing and Operations 12:00-12:15 Closing Comments, Prizes, Adjourn