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Risk and Uncertainty in the Hydropower Industry

This event is supported by the following member utilities:

CEATI International’s 12th Annual Hydropower Conference will focus on the risk and uncertainty that hydropower owners and operators currently face. The event will feature case studies on the following topics:

1. Operational reliability, including condition assessment, inspection, and maintenance of critical equipment

2. Examples of risk informed decision making, risk prioritization, and risk management applied by hydropower utilities and dam owners

3. Coordination and communication between plant operators, dam safety engineers, and water managers

4. Use and verification of instrumentation and automation5. Data management and data quality control6. Balancing risks and operating during a pandemic

Who Should Attend?

• Electric utilities and dam owners• Consultants• Equipment manufacturers and suppliers• Research facilities and laboratories• Academics

12th Annual

Hydropower ConferenceMarch 2-4, 2021 • Online

Register at the link below

https://my.ceati.com/en/event/registration/3740/

Event SponsorsGold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Welcome/Plenary A Proceedings Page

Plenary B Plenary C/Closing Remarks

DSIG Day 1 HPLIG Day 1 HOPIG Day 1 DSIG Day 2

HPLIG Day 2 HOPIG Day 2 DSIG Day 3 HPLIG Day 3

Breakout SessionsHOPIG Day 3

Virtual Exhibition Be sure to check out our virtual exhibition and engage

with the industry!

Thank you to our exhibitors!

Hydropower Day 1: March 2, 2021

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All times are in Eastern Standard Time - Agenda is subject to change without notice.

12:15 - 2:15 DSIG Day 1: Spillway Evaluations and Data Analysis

12:15 Big Data Approaches in the Nondestructive Evaluation of Concrete Spillways Shane Boone & Jeff Cohen, BDI

12:55 Risky Business: Real Time Assessment and Evaluation of Spillway Investigation Findings Utilizing Risk Informed Decision Making Olivia Virgadamo, CDWR & Dawning Wu, HDR

1:35 Use of Autonomous UAV Mission Framework for Condition Tracking of Concrete Spillways Harsh Rathod, Niricson Software & Chris Bray, BC Hydro

12:00 - 12:15 Break

12:15 - 2:15 Breakout Rooms Available

2:30 - 4:30 HOPIG Day 1: Responding to Climate Change Impacts

2:30 Flexibility and Environmental Trade offs Brenda Pracheil, ORNL (USDOE)

3:10 Assessing GHG Emissions from Reservoirs Using the G-res Tool Sara Mercier-Blais, IHA

3:50 Implementing a Climate Transition Risk Workshop at OPG Kurt Kornelsen & Daisy Wu, OPG

2:15 - 2:30 Break

2:30 - 4:30 DSIG Breakout Rooms

Several smaller virtual breakout rooms will be available for those who wish to participate in follow-up discussions with thepresenters from the previous session.

4:30 - 4:45 Break

4:45 - 6:45 HPLIG Day 1: Generator Monitoring Technology

4:45 Managing Assets Based on Actual Data André Tétreault, VibroSystM

5:25 Opportunities to Utilize Protective Relay Data to Predict Generator Failures Nikhil Jagirdar, Schweitzer & Scott Smyth, Sapere

6:05 Circuit Ring Bus Temperature and Other Measurements in a Generator Peter Ludwig, Christina Park & Joseph Terranova, NYPA

4:45 - 6:45 HOPIG Breakout Rooms

Several smaller virtual breakout rooms will be available for those who wish to participate in follow-up discussions with thepresenters from the previous session.

10:30 - 12:00 Plenary Session Day 1 – Welcome and Opening Remarks

10:30 CEATI Welcome and Introduction Lizzie Smith & Chris Hayes, CEATI International

11:00 Panel Discussion – COVID-19 Impacts and Lessons Learned from the Utility Perspective Moderated by Greg Lewis, HPLIG Technical Advisor, CEATI David Whitman, Southern Company Tony Bennett, Ontario Power Generation Dudley McFadden, SMUD

Session Chairs: Matt Muto, SCE & Ian Hope, Severn Trent Water

Session Chair: Don Ferko, OPG

Session Chair: Ram Veeraraghavan, Tacoma Power

Several smaller virtual breakout rooms will be available for those who wish to network with other conference attendees.

2:30 - 4:30 DSIG Breakout Rooms

4:45 - 6:45 HOPIG Breakout Rooms

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Hydropower Day 2: March 3, 202111:00 - 1:00 HOPIG Day 2: Impacts of New Technologies on Hydropower

11:00 Using Hydropower to Produce Green Hydrogen in Iceland Magnús Sigurðsson, Landsvirkjun

11:40 Producing Hydrogen Using Hydropower in the US Nathan Ashcroft & Pietro Di Zanno, Stantec

12:20 Turlough Hill Pumped Storage Plant and Impacts on the Grid William Farrington, ESB

11:00 - 1:00 HPLIG Technical Breakout Session Day 2

11:00 Optimizing Hydraulic Turbine Operating Zones through Cavitation Monitoring and Air Injection Richard Fraser, GE & Richard Miller, USBR

11:40 Evaluation of the Efficacy of HOD UV for Control of Dreissenid Mussels in Turbid Waters Leonard Willett, RNT & Dennis Bitter, Atlantium

12:20 Moderated Discussion

3:30 - 4:30 Plenary Session Day 2

3:30 - 4:30 Panel Discussion: Impacts of Wildfires on Operations, Onsite Infrastructure and Debris Management Moderated by Bruce Muller, DSIG Technical Advisor, CEATI Brent Buffington, Southern California Edison Kent Allen, Snowy Hydro Dustin Bengtson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

1:00 - 1:15 Break

3:15-3:30 Break

1:15 - 3:15 HPLIG Day 2: Powerplant Infrastructure Upgrades

1:15 Wicket Gate Seal Material Test Bed and Monitoring Sarah Rask & Emmet Carn , USACE

1:55 Replacement of Generator CO2 Fire Protection Systems with Clean Agent Fire Protection Systems Richard Harvey, USACE

2:35 Increased Operational Flexibility with Distributed Aeration Jason Foust, Voith

1:15 - 3:15 HOPIG Breakout Rooms

Several smaller virtual breakout rooms will be available for those who wish to participate in follow-up discussions with thepresenters from the previous session.

4:30-4:45 Break

4:45 - 6:45 DSIG Day 2: Risk Management and Risk Informed Decision Making

4:45 Finding Efficiency with SQRA to Make Solid Risk- Informed Dam Safety Decisions Dan Osmun & Kevin Snyder, HDR

5:25 GIS-Based Risk-Informed Decision for Different Dam Failure Scenarios John Dong & Matt Muto, SCE

6:05 New USACE Risk Management Center Tools to Support Risk Informed Decision Making Shaun Carney, RTI & Haden Smith, USACE

4:45 - 6:45 Breakout Rooms Available

Several smaller virtual breakout rooms will be available for those who wish to network with other conference attendees.

All times are in Eastern Standard Time - Agenda is subject to change without notice.

Session Chair: Bruno Benedetti, Brookfield Session Chair: Daniel Corbeil, Hydro-Quebec

Session Chair: Chuck DeVane, Southern Company

Session Chairs: Paul Lennemann, Avista & Roger Raeburn, PacifiCorp

Hydropower Day 2: March 3, 2021

11:00 - 1:00 HPLIG Day 3: Operational and Maintenance Costs

11:00 A Case Study on Probabilistic Technico-economic Analysis Including Maintenance Costs for Hydroelectric Turbine Fatigue Risk Michael Blain, IREQ

11:40 Establishing a Methodology to Evaluate Start/Stop and Other Variable Operations Costs Leanne Griesen, HDR & Ram Veeraraghavan, Tacoma Power

12:20 Hydropower Fleet Intelligence: An Overview of Research and Recent Results Jim Miller & Pradeep Ramuhalli, ORNL (USDOE)

11:00 - 1:00 Breakout Rooms Available

Several smaller virtual breakout rooms will be available for those who wish to network with other conference attendees.

1:00-1:15 Break

1:15 - 3:15 DSIG Day 3: Embankment Dam Upgrade and Installation Projects

1:15 Using Satellite Data and Risk Analytics to Monitor Dams – Remotely and Efficiently Camilla Braithwaite, Rezatec & Daniel Turnbull, Hunter Water 1:55 Large-scale Laboratory Apparatus for Internal Erosion Assessment of Embankment Dams Sasi Sasitharan, PowerTech & Maoxin Li, BC Hydro

2:35 A Fresh Look at One of the Most Ambitious Construction Projects of the 1920s: The Beauharnois Diversion Canal Annick Bigras & Daniel Verret, Hydro-Québec

1:15 - 3:15 HPLIG Technical Breakout Session Day 3

1:15 Considerations for Upgrading Existing Kaplan Runners Thomas Ort, Voith

1:55 Life Assessment and Investigation of Repair Alternatives to Kaplan Turbine Crank Pins through Finite Element Analysis and Fitness-for-Service Vitor Garcia, Quest

2:35 Moderated Discussion

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30 - 5:30 HOPIG Day 3: Ensemble Forecasting Case Studies

3:30 Impact of High Inflows on a Cascade System with Short Travel Times between Dams David Payne, Mercury

3:30 - 5:30 DSIG Breakout Rooms

Several smaller virtual breakout rooms will be available for those who wish to participate in follow-up discussions with thepresenters from the previous session.

Hydropower Day 3: March 4, 2021

5:45 - 7:00 Plenary Session Day 3 and Closing Remarks

5:45 Panel Discussion: Impacts of More Frequent Ramping and Start/Stops on Hydro Operations, Reliability, and Public Safety Moderated by Marcel Paul Raymond, HOPIG Technical Advisor, CEATI Bruno Benedetti, Brookfield Renewable; Chad Croft, Portland General Electric & Sharon Roach, Tacoma Power

5:30-5:45 Break

6:45 Closing Remarks Lizzie Smith & Chris Hayes, CEATI International

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Session Chair: Jim Calnon, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Session Chairs: Jennifer Dodd, TVA & Jason Clere, Brookfield Session Chair: Jean Pellerin, CEATI International

Session Chair: Ann McManamon, BPA

4:10 How Ensemble Forecasting Methods Can Improve Hydropower Operations and Planning: Examples of the Flow Forecasting and Decision Support System of TransAlta William Fru, TransAlta & Arnejan van Loenen, Deltares

4:50 Developing and Using Ensemble Forecasts at Rio Tinto Jean Paquin & Marco Latraverse, Rio Tinto

11:00 - 1:00 Breakout Rooms Available

1:15 - 3:15 HPLIG Technical Breakout Session Day 3

3:30 - 5:30 DSIG Breakout Rooms

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