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Video: Fish Protection Profile - The Center Sender

October 5, 2022

Natel Energy’s Center Sender won third place in the DOE's Fish Protection Prize contest in 2020. The Center Sender guides fish away from underwater turbines' most dangerous areas using an electrified cantilevered bar rack—a physical/electrical device that guides fish to the safest path through a hydropower intake or water diversion.

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Newsletters

Natel's Summer 2024 Quarterly Newsletter

The summer's heating up, but at Natel we're keeping things cool, and not only with shade structures and a cooling tower for the fish! Read our newsletter for a round up of our biggest updates from Q2.

Newsletters

Natel Energy Q1 2020 Newsletter

Freedom Falls RHT is installed and operational, fish passage testing is ongoing, Natel received a DOE grant to research Restoration Hydro, and Upstream Tech launched HydroForecast.

Podcasts

Public News Service Cites the Freedom Hydro Plant As A Key Example of Low-Impact Hydro

Listen to a short audio piece about Low Impact Hydropower, including discussion of the LIHI-certified Freedom Hydro Plant in Maine. Accompanying text conversation between Abe and Eric Krebs.