California startup Natel has 2 missions: stop climate change & protect biodiversity. Their novel turbine technology is making hydropower safer for wildlife and building healthier river ecosystems. Watch this 4-minute film about Natel Energy and founders Gia Schneider and Abe Schneider, part of the NextNow digital series profiling solutions to climate change and the people behind those solutions.
TIME covers Gia and Abe Schneider’s commitment to delivering reliable, renewable energy with water while also envisioning how hydropower could be used as a tool for ecosystem restoration.
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.
Abe Schneider and Sterling Watson lay out the argument for FishSafe™ turbines in this paper published in The International Journal of Hydropower & Dams, Issue 5.