In late 2002, Duke Power applied to FERC to amend its license for the Catawba-Wateree project requesting modification of the project boundary to exclude two bypass reaches – stretches of riverbed where the natural water flow is diverted to generate power. One of these bypassed reaches was once the Great Falls of the Catawba, a series of high rapids neighboring a town which took the name Great Falls in regard for the local scenery.

FERC issued a license amendment which increased the authorized capacity of the Sturgeon Falls project to 6.4 MW. The licensee requested the amendment after rehabilitating several turbines that were damaged in December, 2005.

A license amendment for Erie Boulevard's Lower Raquette River project will increase the project's generating capacity by 50% (from 12 to 18 MW) while converting four dams from peaking generation into run-of-the-river mode, speeding up the license's fish protection and downstream fish passage measures by three years (from 2010 to 2007), and adding upstream eel passage at four dams.

Entergy Arkansas has applied for a license amendment that would allow the construction of a marina and boardwalk at the Carpenter-Remmel project. Comments are due on January 12, 2007.

FERC has approved a license amendment for the Lake Dorothy project. The amendment authorizes the licensee to excavate a "starter tunnel" during construction that could later be used to further expand the project.

City of Hastings, MN is the first applicant seeking to get an approval from the federal government to run an in-river hydrokinetic project.