Approvals for your hydro project
General guidance on seeking approvals and permits regardless of jurisdiction.
General guidance on seeking approvals and permits regardless of jurisdiction.
Detailed guidance on measuring the power in the water and understanding how much energy you can capture with your hydro system.
Assessing your planned system financially – do yourself a favour and use IRR.
Terms like weir and penstock got you confused? We’ll help you understand these as well and how a diversion hydro site works.
Understanding the types of hydro power – impoundment, diversion, pumped storage… we’ll explain them.
To calculate hydraulic power you need to measure …
Understanding the anatomy of an impoundment hydro site – terms like head, flow , tail race, impoundment, depleted reach, got you confused? We’ll help you get oriented to understand not only the terms, but how an impoundment hydro site works.
There are various ways of measuring head at your hydro site as of a certain point in time. Head varies at any site usually, therefore a head measurement should be accompanied by the date it was taken and if possible how long it’s duration was. “Head” is the difference between upper water level and lower … Read more