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Top 8 Hydropower startups
Updated: April 21, 2024 |
These startups develop new technologies for hydroelectric dams or making energy from river currents.
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Country: USA | Funding: $80.8M
Natel Energy created a new hydropower technology enabling cost-effective production of low impact, distributed baseload energy from existing low dams, irrigation canals, and other low head hydropower resources.
Natel Energy created a new hydropower technology enabling cost-effective production of low impact, distributed baseload energy from existing low dams, irrigation canals, and other low head hydropower resources.
2
Country: USA | Funding: $67.6M
Emrgy is a transformational technology company that is redefining hydropower to remain the world’s most reliable, continuous, and cost-effective renewable energy resource in an energy economy shifting to distributed, intermittent renewables.
Emrgy is a transformational technology company that is redefining hydropower to remain the world’s most reliable, continuous, and cost-effective renewable energy resource in an energy economy shifting to distributed, intermittent renewables.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $14.7M
Gravity Renewables is an owner, operator, and developer of small hydroelectric power plants in the United States. Gravity Renewables brings long-term, cost-effective clean energy to electricity consumers, helps conserve and restore historical sites, and promotes educational and recreational opportunities in the communities it serves.
Gravity Renewables is an owner, operator, and developer of small hydroelectric power plants in the United States. Gravity Renewables brings long-term, cost-effective clean energy to electricity consumers, helps conserve and restore historical sites, and promotes educational and recreational opportunities in the communities it serves.
4
Country: USA | Funding: $4.5M
Verdant Power systems generate clean energy from the currents of tides, rivers, and canals.
Verdant Power systems generate clean energy from the currents of tides, rivers, and canals.
5
Country: Germany | Funding: €2.8M
Smart Hydro Power is a Germany-based company that develops, manufactures, sells, and markets kinetic micro-hydro power plants.
Smart Hydro Power is a Germany-based company that develops, manufactures, sells, and markets kinetic micro-hydro power plants.
6
Country: USA
Hydro Green Energy (HGE) is a hydropower project development company that fabricate, install and operate a grid-connected hydrokinetic (zero-head) power projects
Hydro Green Energy (HGE) is a hydropower project development company that fabricate, install and operate a grid-connected hydrokinetic (zero-head) power projects
7
Country: USA
Hydrovolts has invented three types of turbines designed to tap river currents while reducing the amount of debris that gets caught in the turbine.
Hydrovolts has invented three types of turbines designed to tap river currents while reducing the amount of debris that gets caught in the turbine.
8
Country: Belgium | Funding: A$75K
Turbulent develops resilient, cost-efficient turbines designed for rivers with minimal height differences.
Turbulent develops resilient, cost-efficient turbines designed for rivers with minimal height differences.
See also:
Top 10 Wave Energy startups
Top 10 Wave Energy startups