Nearly 40,000 MW of available hydro-power potential in the U.S. could be developed by 2025, according to EPRI's Assessment of Waterpower Potential and Development Needs: 2010 Update.rnThis report is a follow-up to EPRI's 2007 effort to conduct a waterpower resource assessment. The objective was to determine the potential that waterpower technology could contribute toward meeting U.S. energy needs. For the assessment, EPRI defined waterpower as including generation from conventional hydro facilities (including pumped storage), as well as emerging technologies that access the potential of river, tidal, ocean, and constructed waterway currents and of ocean waves and thermal gradients.
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