Customers

We will begin sales of our small turbines in late 2008. 
The Company is currently selecting sites for initial projects demonstrating production of usable power from its products.
Grant funding from Federal and other sources for hydrokinetic energy demonstration projects will bey available in 2008.
If you are interested in having your site considered, please contact us by email at sales at hydrovolts.com.  Estimate the power available at your site here.

Irrigation and Flood Control Districts

Constructed waterways are ideal sites for small turbines that provide enough power for lighting, telemetry, small pumps and motors, and field operations.  Hydrovolts turbines can be brought onsite with a truck and small crane and lowered directly in to the canals when there is sufficient velocity (> 1.5 m/sec).  Local engineering is available and no permits may be needed.

 

Remote Communities

Hundreds of millions of people around the world live along waterways, often far from commercial electricity sources.  They almost always obtain power from petroleum-powered generators, at very high cost per kW of energy produced.  The Hydrovolts turbines provide an alternative source of power that is clean, renewable, free, silent and invisible. 

Constructed Waterways and Spillways

These are found at dams and reservoirs, locks on canals, in urban areas with seasonal flooding, and large industrial facilities.  They are ideal to generate renewable energy from untapped water flows.  In many sites environmental permits are not required and onsite engineering capability is available.

Industrial and Municipal Water Treatment or Cooling

Large facilities can use millions of gallons of water per day and have opportunities for generating power from gravity-powered flows.  Water supply and treatment plants, particularly in mountainous areas or high-rainfall areas, may have suitable sites inside or outside their plants for our turbines.

 

 

 

Canals and Rivers

Many large rivers have good velocities for the Hydrovolts new turbine design, which is more efficient at low speeds than all other turbine designs.  Velocities are seasonal in most rivers and installation is more challenging.

 

Tidal Channels

Coastal tidal channels can have velocities up to 11 knots in a very small number areas.  Currents of up to 4 knots are more common.  But because tidal cycles include slack tides, the average tidal current is usually only about a third of the maximum.   Channels in coral reefs also have fast velocities in many locations.  Tidal channels are challenging sites because the power is less (the tidal currents stop twice a day and reverse), marine organisms grow rapidly on equipment saltwater is hard on equipment.  However there are a few sites ideal for large scale renewable power generation using Hydrovolts turbines, and many sites suitable for small scale power generation.  Remote island and coastal communities will benefit in particular from our technology.