DE-LC-0000121: Streamlining Hydropower Permitting

About this opportunity

The Hydropower Program is issuing this Streamlining Hydropower Permitting Lab Call for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26). The program administers a broad portfolio of activities to strengthen the body of technical knowledge and support industry efforts to develop, demonstrate, and deploy hydropower technologies. The research and development activities to be funded under this lab call will support the Hydropower Program in improving hydropower and pumped storage environmental performance and streamlining hydropower permitting and relicensing through innovation in applied sciences including fish passage, environmental monitoring, and effective mitigation technologies.