December 2012 Case Study: West Sound Utility District Introduction Until now, hydropower as a distributed generation energy source hasn’t made sense: dams are both too expensive and environmentally destructive, paddlewheels are inefficient, and propeller turbines require difficult construction to install. Hydrovolts has solved that challenge by approaching the problem from a new perspective. Hydrovolts is capturing hydrokinetic energy – the energy in moving water – in artificial waterways such as industrial outfalls, avoiding the environmental and technical challenges that have made small traditional hydropower too expensive. Hydrovolts has patent-pending turbine innovations that make small scale hydrokinetic energy feasible. First, the turbines involve minimal perm

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