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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Natel Energy Summer 2022 Newsletter
The latest updates from Natel including installing our first RHT in EU, project development updates, and the newest tests in support of honing our FishSafe technology.
Italian site Mezzopieno News touts RHT designs as world-changing good news
Mezzopieno News, the so-called Italian Network of Positivity, writes about the FishSafe Restoration Hydro Turbine as "Good News That Changes the World."
The case for FishSafe™ turbines, for both retrofit and new-build applications
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.
