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Mr. Franc possesses over 35 years of hydroelectric engineering, operations and development experience with 25 years involved with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issues dealing with licensing, relicensing, and Part 12 dam safety compliance issues. He has demonstrated abilities in water resources modeling, hydrology, hydraulics, finance, database management, stochastic processes, computer systems, statistics and application software development. Mr. Franc has and have an extensive knowledge of all the Corps’ Hydrologic Engineering Center’s (HEC) packages as well as Microsoft’s, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access Programs. Mr. Franc has managed projects dealing with the identification of new potential conventional hydropower, water supply and pump storage sites and the acquisition of existing hydro assets. He possesses considerable experience in the development of site hydrology, including:
Mr. Franc has developed reservoir operations models and evaluated the energy output and financial viability of hydroelectric projects as part of feasibility studies. He is currently a sole proprietor specializing in FERC licensing and compliance and due diligence for potential hydro acquisitions. A sideline of his business is the use of proprietary software packages that afford detailed study and development of energy potential and financial estimates for existing and proposed turbine upgrades, replacements, or additions. Mr. Franc’s additional area of study is the development of probable maximum precipitation (PMP) and/or probable maximum floods (PMF) as they relate to the inflow design floods (IDF), spillway adequacy and emergency action plans (EAP).
