Natel Energy 2024 Fall Newsletter

2021 was a year of validation, bracketed by certifying our Freedom Falls plant as a Low Impact Hydro Installation, and by a suite of successful through-turbine fish passage tests in Q4.

Our 2021 study with PNNL found 100% survival rates for American eel passing through the RHT, and the peer-reviewed paper is now available from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.

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