Video: Transforming our energy landscape with Natel's FishSafe Restoration Hydro Turbine
In 2019 Tony Grassi, owner of The Mill at Freedom Falls, partnered with Natel to install the first Restoration Hydro Turbine, retrofitting a once-purposeless sawmill with enough power to meet the needs of the small community of Freedom, Maine.
Like Tony's Mill, there are hundreds of existing small dams in the United States that are no longer being used as a power source or were constructed for non-power purposes. By retrofitting them with FishSafe hydro turbines, Natel is working with communities to leverage the infrastructure they already have to generate new, clean energy that could deliver close to 10 percent of the country's energy demand, while restoring safe downstream fish passage.
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Video: The FishSafe Restoration Hydro Turbine
A quick intro to Natel's Restoration Hydro Turbine (RHT) technology.
Gia talks to the Catalyst podcast about how to expand global hydropower production
Listen to Gia Schneider's conversation with Lara Pierpoint on the Catalyst podcast about how to build more, and more sustainable hydropower.
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.
