WWF, FIDIC and AECOM feature Natel in Playbook for Nature-Positive Infrastructure Development

CEO Gia Schneider chats with Jacob Goldstein, host of What's Your Problem, about how the opportunities to make hydropower more sustainable and how we can learn from beavers.

The company will install up to 90 of its Restoration Hydro Turbines at three non-powered dams

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Sept. 28, 2021 — Natel Energy, a supplier of sustainable hydropower solutions, announced today it will develop, finance and construct three non-powered dam sites along Louisiana’s Red River in partnership with Nelson Energy, a Minneapolis-based firm that has successfully developed and licensed over $250 million of hydroelectric projects in the U.S. With Nelson Energy as an advisory partner, Natel will install between 60 and 90 of its flagship product, the Restoration Hydro Turbine (RHT), to retrofit three existing dams and add 80 MW of renewable power to the grid — enough energy to power 35,960 average US homes each year.

While waterpower and conservation have had a fraught historical relationship, there is movement to align around the common goal of combating climate change.