; (B) Docket No. RM16–23; and (C) any other relevant proceedings. (3) Technical conference and public comment In preparing the report under paragraph (1), the Commission shall solicit public input, including by convening a technical conference and providing an opportunity for public submission of written comments on a draft report. (b) Definitions In this section: (1) Ancillary services The term ancillary services means the specialty services and functions provided by the electric grid that facilitate and support the continuous flow of electricity so that supply will continually meet demand, including— (A) autonomous dynamic voltage support; (B) balancing; (C) black start capabilities; (D) frequency control; (E) load following; (F) operating, flexibility, contingency, and other reserves; (G) reactive power; and (H) synchronized regulation. (2) Conventional, storage, conduit, and emerging hydropower technologies The term conventional, storage, conduit, and emerging hydropower technologies means hydropower in all its forms and modes of operation, including— (A) the use of dams or similar infrastructure to store water in a reservoir or divert flows from a waterway, and to release stored or diverted water through a turbine to generate electricity according to any mode of operation, such as run-of-river, peaking, reregulating, storage, or load following; (B) a configuration of two water reservoirs at different elevations that can generate power as water moves down through a turbine, and pump water back to the upper reservoir when the turbine operations are reversed, including both closed- and open-loop systems; (C) marine and hydrokinetic technologies, including wave, tidal, and in-river systems; (D) mini- and micro-hydropower facilities within irrigation, water supply, industrial, agricultural, or other open or closed water conduit systems