About Natel Energy

Natel Energy, Inc. is a California-based renewable energy systems company operating in the waterpower industry. Our low head hydropower system, the SLH, enables cost-effective, fish-friendly generation of reliable, renewable electricity from the thousands of existing low dams, miles of existing irrigation canal infrastructure, and the significant, undeveloped low head potential in streams. The SLH technology aims to reduce the cost of developing power at low head sites and to expand the range of economically developable sites to ones as low as 3 feet tall.

The motivating concept behind Natel Energy is to lower the cost of baseload, emissions-free renewable energy from water resources to under the cost of power generated from fossil fuels. New waterpower technologies, such as those of Natel Energy, will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, stabilize the electric power grid, meet growing electricity demand and increase energy security.

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water… has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.: ~ Roderick Haig-Brown