How reinvented turbines are boosting a cornerstone of the renewables revolution—and protecting fish

Principal Engineer Sterling Watson won this year's inaugural Rising Star Award, presented by the National Hydropower Association's Future Leaders of Waterpower group.

Brown, a 25-year finance industry veteran with degrees from Howard University & Harvard Business School, brings a wealth of experience spanning corporate finance & investment banking.

With a name appropriately coined from the phrase “natural electric,” Natel is focused on enabling a distributed or decentralized hydropower model featuring a large number of smaller projects.