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Hydropower 101

Here you will find the presentation and background materials for the Webinar presented on September 17, 2010.

A photo of white water cascading over rocks in a mountain stream.

Hydropower 101 (PDF 8.1 MB)
Presentation by Roger Taylor, National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

About the Presenter

Roger Taylor is the principal project manager with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Tribal Energy Program. Over the past 30 years, his quest has been to expand and promote the use of renewable energy to support sustainable economic development both domestically and internationally. Along the way, he has worked in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, other U.S. government agencies, the renewable energy industry, and various financing and development agencies. He was extensively involved in application of renewable energy systems to the needs of developing communities from 1992 to 2000, and over the last decade he has focused on tribal economic development. Prior to working for NREL, he spent 15 years working on the integration of renewables with electric utilities, which included 10 years working with the Electric Power Research Institute and the EPRI-sponsored Power Electronics Applications Center.

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