JEDI Conventional Hydropower Model

The Jobs and Economic Development Impacts (JEDI) Conventional Hydropower Model allows users to estimate economic development impacts from conventional hydropower projects and includes default information that can be utilized to run a generic impact analysis assuming industry averages.

Model users are encouraged to enter as much project-specific data as possible.

Using MS Excel 2007

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User Agreement

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