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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A water turbine is a rotating machine that converts mechanical energy of water to electrical work through the process of turbine rotation. The device rotates and the rotating ...

At first glance, the potential for hydropower in the U.S. seems limited. Of the country’s 84,000 dams, only a small fraction produce hydropower, and the country seems to have an appetite for tearing ...

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 ...

As the world looks to incorporate more renewables into energy grids, centuries-old systems that can balance supply and demand ...