The context
Easy Hydro offers reliable, low-cost and easy to maintain hydropower converters specifically designed for Run-off-river sites. In order to achieve this, the turbine consists of a standard water pump with reversed flow direction instead of a specifically designed conventional turbine. This technology allows for conveniently exploiting untapped resources and generating CO2-free renewable electricity without damaging the environment.
Only 44% of the hydropower potential in Europe is currently exploited, with the remaining 56% made up of small sites for which the adoption of a conventional full-blown turbine would not be economically attractive. The novelty of the present approach is to reduce the complexity and cost of the installation in order to turn economically feasible sites down to the “Pico” scale (e.g. less than 5 kW of installed power)
Key advantages
• Using off-the-shelf hydraulic pumps as turbines which cost up to a fraction of a conventional custom-built hydro turbine
• Ease of maintenance, spare parts readily available
• Unique knowledge in selecting the most appropriate pump to work as turbine for a determined site
Useful link: Reference guide for Micro-Hydropower projects by the British Hydropower Association
Contacts and commercial enquiries
info@easyhydrosolutions.com
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