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We’re proud to be included on the 2022 Global Cleantech 100 list!

2021 was a year of validation, bracketed by certifying our Freedom Falls plant as a Low Impact Hydro Installation, and by a suite of successful through-turbine fish passage tests in Q4.

In 2019 Tony Grassi, owner of The Mill at Freedom Falls, partnered with Natel to install the first Restoration Hydro Turbine.

Gia talks with Tough Tech Summit from The Engine.

In September 2021, Natel conducted formal testing with PNNL on a cohort of American eel passing through the RHT.

In September 2021, Natel worked with Kleinschmidt Associates on a through-turbine test of juvenile alewife.

Our installed Restoration Hydro Turbine (RHT) projects are operating reliably, and our project development pipeline continues to grow.

The company will install up to 90 of its Restoration Hydro Turbines at three non-powered dams

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Sept. 28, 2021 — Natel Energy, a supplier of sustainable hydropower solutions, announced today it will develop, finance and construct three non-powered dam sites along Louisiana’s Red River in partnership with Nelson Energy, a Minneapolis-based firm that has successfully developed and licensed over $250 million of hydroelectric projects in the U.S. With Nelson Energy as an advisory partner, Natel will install between 60 and 90 of its flagship product, the Restoration Hydro Turbine (RHT), to retrofit three existing dams and add 80 MW of renewable power to the grid — enough energy to power 35,960 average US homes each year.