Power management company Eaton is working with the US Department of Energy on a project to deploy new hydropower generation technology at existing non-powered dams and waterways.
The contract, which builds on an earlier award, will see Eaton manufacture and test a new integrated hydropower turbine and generator.
A scaled-down prototype will be built and tested by the end of 2018, the company said.
The earlier contract covered design, analysis and optimisation of the technology.
Eaton research and technology principal engineer David Yee said: “Eaton is leveraging decades of manufacturing and engineering expertise to help innovate hydro turbine technology to improve economics in small-scale hydropower applications and make renewable power more accessible to developers.”
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