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HRI is a data-driven collaborative formed by industry leaders. We use collaboration, data, and asset optimization to help our members transform. Our goal is to lower the cost of operations and maintenance through digital transformation.
What we provide
HRI ensures hydropower continues to be the premier electricity-generating resource in the transition to a low- to no-carbon grid by embracing digital transformation and technological advancement. Our members pool their operational, event, and maintenance data with peer operators, allowing them to access comparative reliability insights in HRI’s platform and member portal that they could not get alone.
A digitally enabled hydropower industry
Our vision is a digitally enabled hydropower industry that provides the availability, flexibility, and adaptability to be the cornerstone of the electrical grid.
Our mission is to drive data-informed decision making to improve efficiency in hydropower operations and maintenance through collaboration, new data technologies and tools, research, and development.
HRI is guided by three pillars: collaboration, data, and asset optimization. Explore them here.
Collaboration is essential to transformation. By sharing ideas, experiences, and innovations, our members unlock valuable insights and help one another make more informed decisions.
HRI collects and manages one of the largest operational hydropower datasets in the world. We aggregate, standardize, and anonymize data shared by members. Data is treated as both an asset and a tool to gather insight, allowing for comparisons across companies, equipment, units, and more.
Asset optimization is treated as both a strategic discipline and an operational advantage. By benchmarking performance, identifying inefficiencies, and applying shared insights across fleets, HRI helps members maximize reliability, availability, and value from existing assets.
We aggregate, standardize, and anonymize the data shared by our members enabling, comparisons across companies, equipment, units, and more. HRI's members represent 42% of US, 9% of Canadian, and 3.7% of global generating capacity.
Stay up to date with the work HRI is doing to push the industry forward.
HRI tested an AI-based bearing degradation model developed by Argonne National Lab using hydropower data from the HRI Platform to evaluate whether it could help members identify early signs of declining bearing health.
To help our members stay on top of their bearing health, HRI has completed an analysis of Bearing Failure Signatures, focused on identifying failure signatures in sensor data prior to the occurrence of bearing failures.
Not all generating units are created equal. Different operating conditions lead to variances in lifespan of units, even within a single powerhouse. With the consistent tracking of operational scenarios through use of weighted hours equations, members will be able to assess the impact of specific operational habits and adjust their actions to improve the lifespan of their units.
Get Involved
Become an HRI member and help shape the future of hydropower through research, innovation, and collaboration.
