Waterpower Week 2022 provided more than 20 POWERFUL sessions and workshops throughout the 4 days in D.C. See the full details below from this year’s conference.
- Monday, April 4 2022
- Tuesday, April 5 2022
Session 1: Opening Plenary Session: Growth in Waterpower - What's Happening to Meet Clean Energy Net-Zero Goals?
- 8:00 AM
- - 9:30 AM
Session Sponsor
- 8:00 AM
- - 9:30 AM
Session 2A: Legislative 'Hot Takes:' Tax Credits for Investment and Production, Climate-Related Bills, and More!
- 9:45 AM
- - 10:45 AM
- 9:45 AM
- - 10:45 AM
Session 2B: Finding Financing for Development: Innovative Financing Options for Small Hydro and Marine Energy
- 9:45 AM
- - 10:45 AM
- 9:45 AM
- - 10:45 AM
Session 3A: FERC Briefing on New Safety-Related Regulations
- 11:00 AM
- - 12:00 PM
- 11:00 AM
- - 12:00 PM
Session 3B: Corporate Buyers of Green Energy -- What Do They Need in Order to Consider Buying Electricity Powered by Water?
- 11:00 AM
- - 12:00 PM
- 11:00 AM
- - 12:00 PM
Session 3C: A Conversation with Federal Resource Agencies -- What's New? How about New Technology?
- 11:00 AM
- - 12:00 PM
- 11:00 AM
- - 12:00 PM
Session 4: Plenary Session: Part 1: Wholesale Electricity Markets; Part 2: Amplifying Waterpower’s Messages to Policy Makers
- 12:45 PM
- - 2:00 PM
- 12:45 PM
- - 2:00 PM
Outreach and Advocacy: Event Attendees Meet with Congressional Elected Officials/Staff, Resource Agencies, and/or U.S. Department of Energy
- 2:00 PM
- - 6:00 PM
- 2:00 PM
- - 6:00 PM
Future Leaders of Waterpower (FLOW) Happy Hour (ticket required)
- 7:00 PM
- - 8:30 PM
- 7:00 PM
- - 8:30 PM
- Wednesday, April 6 2022
Session 5: Plenary Session: Part 1: Featured Speaker: Richard Glick, Chair, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Part 2: Licensing Reform through the Uncommon Dialogue: Changing the Federal Power Act
- 9:00 AM
- - 10:30 AM
Session Sponsor
- 9:00 AM
- - 10:30 AM
Session 6A: Hot Legal and Regulatory Topics – Clean Water Act, Financial Assurance, Environmental and Energy Justice, and More
- 11:00 AM
- - 12:00 PM
- 11:00 AM
- - 12:00 PM
Session 6B: Marine Energy: Path to Commercialization
- 11:00 AM
- - 12:00 PM
- 11:00 AM
- - 12:00 PM
Session 6C: Conversation with FERC's Hydro Administration and Compliance Division Director
- 11:00 AM
- - 12:00 PM
- 11:00 AM
- - 12:00 PM
Session 7A: DOE’s Water Power Technologies Office: What's on the Horizon?
- 1:30 PM
- - 2:30 PM
- 1:30 PM
- - 2:30 PM
Session 7B: Electricity Markets in the West: Evolving Changes and What They Mean for Hydropower
- 1:30 PM
- - 2:30 PM
- 1:30 PM
- - 2:30 PM
Session 7C: Relicensing: Good Practices for Working with Agencies and Stakeholders
- 1:30 PM
- - 2:30 PM
- 1:30 PM
- - 2:30 PM
Session 8A: New Infrastructure Funding - Breaking Down the Details
- 2:45 PM
- - 3:45 PM
- 2:45 PM
- - 3:45 PM
Session 8B: Words That Work - Communicating the Value and Role of Pumped Storage
- 2:45 PM
- - 3:45 PM
- 2:45 PM
- - 3:45 PM
Special Keynote Address: The Honorable Malcolm Turnbull, Former Prime Minister of Australia The Ignored Crisis within the Crisis: Why Pumped Storage Hydro Is Critical to Meeting Net-Zero Carbon Goals
- 3:45 PM
- - 4:15 PM
- 3:45 PM
- - 4:15 PM
Session 9: Plenary Session: Opportunities and Challenges for Waterpower Globally: What Can We Learn from Successes around the World?
- 4:15 PM
- - 5:30 PM
Session Sponsor
- 4:15 PM
- - 5:30 PM
Informal Networking - Explore D.C./Networking with Colleagues
- 5:30 PM
- - 10:00 PM
- 5:30 PM
- - 10:00 PM
- Thursday, April 7 2022
Workshop 10A: Project Financing from the U.S. Department of Energy - Working with the Loan Program Office
- 8:00 AM
- - 10:00 AM
- 8:00 AM
- - 10:00 AM
Workshop 10B: Communication and Engagement Techniques with Media and with Project Stakeholders
- 8:00 AM
- - 10:00 AM
- 8:00 AM
- - 10:00 AM
Workshop 11A: Uncommon Dialogue Working Group Discussions
- 10:15 AM
- - 12:15 PM
- 10:15 AM
- - 12:15 PM
Workshop 11B: Wholesale Electricity Markets: Brush Up on the Basics
- 10:15 AM
- - 12:15 PM
- 10:15 AM
- - 12:15 PM
Discussion with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about Building New Hydro at Existing Dams
- 1:30 PM
- - 2:30 PM
- 1:30 PM
- - 2:30 PM
