Environmental issues and regulatory complexities
With its’ core aeration capability and no underwater moving parts, HydroVenturi’s unique approach to low head hydropower generation enables the concerns of the regulating authorities to be addressed whilst enabling renewable energy supply for domestic and commercial consumption at a local level from otherwise unexploitable resources. Uniquely, Hydroventuri can simultaneously deal with both these challenging issues.
US Market Example
key issue 1
US Environmental Protection Agency – “It is perceived that advancement of turbine technology which could reduce fish mortality resulting from turbine passage to less than 2%, in comparison with turbine -passage mortalities of 5 to 10% for the best existing turbines and 30% or greater for some turbines, would help reverse the decline in hydro generation”.
Key issue 2
US Environmental Protection Agency – “Improved compliance with water quality standards: Advanced turbine technology which would maintain a downstream dissolved oxygen level of at least 6 mg/L, ensuring compliance with the latest water quality standards, would lead to a reverse in the decline of small hydro implementation”.
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