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US Hydropower & Environmental Mitigations: A 1998-2023 inventory of mitigation measures inside licensing documents

Dataset

Description

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) license documents mandate environmental mitigation requirements to reduce potential environmental damage caused by non-federal hydropower facilities. This StoryMap showcases a dataset that leveraged Natural Language Processing (NLP) to inventory environmental mitigations from 465 FERC licenses that were issued from 1998-2023 (Ruggles et al, 2025). Users can explore trends in mitigation requirements over time and space with interactive maps and are presented with a demonstration use case.
Date made available2025
PublisherOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Funding

FundersFunder number
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies OfficeAC05-00OR22725

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