Voith Hydro in 2022 replaced four vertical Pelton turbines at Verbund’s 75-year-old 326-GWh Gerlos 1 hydropower facility in Austria with a first-of-its-kind horizontal six-nozzle Pelton turbine.

Hydropower is a renewable energy source derived from flowing water. Its history can be traced as far back as ancient Greece, where 2,000 years ago waterpower was used to operate wheels for grinding ...

Hydropower is a renewable energy source that utilizes the natural flow of falling or fast-moving water. To generate hydroelectricity, a hydroelectric power station needs to be set up to transform the ...

Original Alden turbine runner. Photo courtesy Alden Research Laboratory. The history of hydropower turbines has been associated with a high demand for maximum power generation. Over the last two ...

While still a couple years away from going live, China has just unveiled two turbines so massive it's hard to comprehend. With an outer diameter of 20 ft, 5 in (6.2 m), each turbine weighs 80 tons, is ...

This enabled a cost-effective and light-weight solution when compared with the previous metallic turbine blade design. Based on the complex-shaped hydro-dynamically designed geometry, a method to ...

Digital condition monitoring is transforming hydropower O&M with AI-driven diagnostics, hybrid architectures, and predictive ...

The pressure to ensure safe fish passage and the health of tailrace waters has led federal agencies and turbine manufacturers to collaborate in improving the design of hydroelectric turbines. Early ...

Researchers from Cornell University published a study in Nature on the adverse ecological effects of hydropower dams. The study examines how these dams block the flow of water, creating large ...