Open AccessUS hydropower resource assessment for Wisconsin
Author(s) -
A.M. Conner,
J.E. Francfort
Publication year - 1996
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/228415
Subject(s) - hydropower , resource (disambiguation) , software , computer science , environmental resource management , engineering , environmental science , computer network , electrical engineering , programming language
The Department of Energy is developing an estimate of the undeveloped hydropower potential in this country. The Hydropower Evaluation Software is a computer model that was developed by the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory for this purpose. The software measures the undeveloped hydropower resources available in the United States, using uniform criteria for measurement. The software was developed and tested using hydropower information and data provided by the Southwestern Power Administration. It is a menu-driven software program that allows the personal computer user to assign environmental attributes to potential hydropower sites, calculate development suitability factors for each site based on the environmental attributes present, and generate reports based on these suitability factors. This report details the resource assessment results for the State of Wisconsin