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Developer Puts Creative Names -- Mad Max, for One -- on Hydro Projects - May 2010
Bored with naming projects after towns, dams or rivers, one hydropower developer has named about a dozen proposed projects after movies, songs and a Saturday Night Live play-dough character...

Hydropower Facility at Quincy Gets Preliminary Approval - April 2010
A Houston-based energy company has preliminary approval from federal regulators to build three hydroturbine power generators at locks and dams on a section of the Mississippi River at Quincy...

A Life Aquatic - January 2010
Some days it's bad to be a fish, especially a bullhead, yellow perch, fresh water buffalo or catfish swimming the Mississippi in Minnesota last month...

Hydro Green Hydrokinetic Turbine Friendly to Fish, Study Says - January 2010
Results of the first fish survival study performed on a hydrokinetic power turbine in the US shows that the technology produced a negligible mortality rate, according to Hydro Green Energy, which commissioned the study done by consulting firm Normandeau Associates...

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Renewable Energy World Announces Awards Finalists, Names Hydro Project Among Top for 2009 - January 2010
AenewableEnergyWorld.com, a leading renewable energy news source, announced that a hydrokinetic turbine project is among the finalists for the 2009 Excellence in Renewable Energy Awards...

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Radio-Toting Fish Give Thumbs-Up to Clean Hydrokinetic Power - January 2010
According to a recent study, fish can live with a new type of hydropower that does not involve constructing dams, weirs, or other fish-unfriendly infrastructure...

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Hydro Green Energy Hydrokinetic Technology Proves Fish Friendly - January 2010
The first and only direct fish survival study performed on a hydrokinetic turbine shows that the technology is exceedingly safe for fish...

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Hydro Green Touts Fish Study - January 2010
esults of the first and only direct fish survival study performed on a hydrokinetic turbine show that the technology is extraordinarily fish friendly, according to Hydro Green Energy, LL...

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Hydro Green Energy, which Plans to Generate Power through Underwater Turbines, Clears First Environmental Test - January 2010
It's official: fish and at least some underwater electricity-generating turbines can coexist...

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» Hastings Hydrokinetic Fish Survival Study - December 2009
An estimation of survival and injury of fish passed through the Hydro Green Energy hydrokinetic system, and a characterization of fish entrainment potential at the Mississippi Lock and Dam No. 2 hydroelectric project...

North America Hydro Development - December 2009
Government support, at levels unseen since the 1980s, is driving new U.S. hydroelectric development while Canada beckons "Come on in, the water's fine!"...

Hastings Project Wins Honorable Mention at POWER-GEN International - December 2009
Hydro Green Energy LLC won honorable mention in the renewable/sustainable category of Power Engineering magazine’s annual Projects of the Year Awards...

NHA's Church Ciocci and Hydro Green Energy's Stover to Testify on Small Hydro at FERC - December 2009
NHA Executive Director Linda Church Ciocci and NHA member Hydro Green Energy Vice President Mark Stover will testify today at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Workshop on Small Hydropower...

Change Brings New Opportunities for Hydro - October 2009
Leaders of indutry associations in the U.S. and Canada offer their views about hydropower's pivotal role in shapinh new energy and environmental policies and in contributing to economic recovery...

Hastings Project Named Finalist for Power Engineering Magazine Award - October 2009
A hydrokinetic project in Hastings, Minn., has been named a finalist in the annual Projects of the Year Awards program organized by the editors of Power Engineering magazine and PennWell Corp...

Power Engineering Magazine Names Project of the Year Awards Finalists - October 2009
The editors of Power Engineering Magazine and PennWell Corp have announced 12 finalists for the annual Projects of the Year Awards Program...

60,000 MW, 700,000 New U.S. Jobs in Hydro - Navigant Study - September 2009
This study focused on estimating the direct and indirect jobs creation potential for the U.S. Hydropower Industry...

First U.S. Hydrokinetic Project Begins Commercial Operations - August 2009
The first federally licensed in-stream hydrokinetic power project in the United States began operating commercially on August 20 on the Mississippi River in Hastings, Minnesota...

Officials Celebrate Opening Of America's First Hydrokinetic Power Project - August 2009
On the Mississippi River in Hastings, Minn., the first of two hydrokinetic turbines has been activated as officials celebrated the official opening of what has been billed as the nation's first federally-licensed hydrokinetic power project...

Hydro Green Hydrokinetic Turbine Begins Minnesota Operation - August 2009
Hydro Green Energy’s 100 kilowatt nameplate capacity hydrokinetic turbine has begun full commercial power operation on the Mississippi River at Hastings, Minnesota...

FERC Commissioner Moeller Flips Switch on Hastings’ Hydro-kinetic Power Project - August 2009
Philip D. Moeller, a commissioner with the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC), on Thursday initiated full operation of the commercial power turbine installation...

Tech to Watch: Hydrokinetic Power - July 2009
The future of hydropower is taking shape just downstream from a standard hydroelectric dam in Hastings, Minnesota...

A Rising Tide for Water Power Funding? - July 2009
Power generated from the movement of water has enormous potential for growth in the United States, but funding for the renewable energy source lags behind other technologies like solar and wind...

DOE Offers $32 M to Keep Hydro Projects Flowing - July 2009
The federal government will offer up to $32 million to hydroelectric power companies to upgrade existing hydro facilities, increase their efficiency and reduce their environmental impact, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday in a statement...

Hydro Power - Subtle Movements Create Current - June 2009
The future of hydropower is taking shape just downstream from a standard hydroelectric dam in Hastings, Minnesota. The power isn't hydroelectric, though; it's hydrokinetic, generated from the motion of free-flowing water...

NHA Announces Prestigious President's Award for Hydro Green Energy, LLC - May 2009
The National Hydropower Association is pleased to announce that it bestowed its prestigious President's Award on Hydro Green Energy, LLC, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., today...

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Developer Recommends More U.S. Policies Favoring Hydro - May 2009
A hydrokinetic project developer told a Senate committee hearing on climate policy that more policies are needed to further the role of waterpower technologies in a national energy strategy...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Leadership Tours Nation's First Commercial Hydrokinetic Power Project - May 2009
Brigadier General Michael J. Walsh, Commander of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Mississippi Valley Division, and Colonel Jon L. Christensen, USACE St. Paul District Commander, yesterday toured the nation's first federally-licensed, commercially-operational hydrokinetic power facility in Hastings, MN...

Developer Recommends More U.S. Policies Favoring Hydro - May 2009
A hydrokinetic project developer told a Senate committee hearing on climate policy that more policies are needed to further the role of waterpower technologies in a national energy strategy...

No Need to Open the Floodgates - May 2009
Hydropower is the United States’ largest renewable resource. It generates 6% to 8% of the nation’s electricity. Three-quarters of all electricity produced by renewables comes from hydropower...

Congress Notes Hastings Energy Project Jobs During Climate Policy Hearing - May 2009
The developer of a Mississippi River hydro power project Tuesday joined the chorus of energy companies posturing for continued federal tax incentives to expand renewable energy projects and create more jobs...

Hydro Green Energy CEO Testifies Before U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee - May 2009
At a hearing today in Washington, DC, Wayne F. Krouse, Chairman and CEO of Hydro Green Energy, LLC, a renewable power company operating in the waterpower sector, spoke to members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee about the potential business development and economic growth opportunities facing this country through the implementation of new clean energy policies, such as climate change legislation...

Turbine Plan Received First Permits- May 2009
An energy company from Texas, Hydro Green Energy, received early permits allowing it to study the possibility of installing 90 underwater turbines on the U.S. side of the Niagara River, in upstate New York. The permits allow the company to spend up to three years gathering data for a license application to pursue its proposed hydrokinetic power plant...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Leadership Tours Nation's First Commercial Hydrokinetic Power Project - May 2009
Brigadier General Michael J. Walsh, Commander of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Mississippi Valley Division, and Colonel Jon L. Christensen, USACE St. Paul District Commander, yesterday toured the nation's first federally-licensed, commercially-operational hydrokinetic power facility in Hastings, MN.

Let's Use the Iowa River to Generate More Power - April 2009
Everyone usually thinks of hydroelectric power as requiring a colossal dam. Not so with hydrokinetic power. Hydrokinetic power uses the current of a river or tides to spin a turbine and generate electricity...

Drawing Power From the Mississippi - April 2009
A Houston startup has installed its first water-powered electric turbine on the Mississippi River in Minnesota and plans to have a second unit installed this year...

Hydrokinetic Plant Piggybacks on Existing Hydro Plant - April 2009
Hydrokinetic energy — which generates power by using underwater turbines that harness moving water — is on the rise in the U.S. In January, the first U.S.-licensed, commercial, grid-connected hydrokinetic project installed the first of two 100-kW nameplate-rated turbines downriver from an existing run-of-river hydroelectric plant on the Mississippi River...

What's Damming Hydrokinetic Power in the U.S.? - March 2009
Barely a month after the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) licensed the nation’s first commercial hydrokinetic power station, Houston-based Hydro Green Energy in January completed installation of the first of two turbines at an existing run-of-river hydropower plant on the Mississippi River for the Minnesota city of Hastings...

Congressman Kline in Minnesota - February 2009
Congressman John Kline toured the Hastings hydropower facility Feb. 17, 2009, at Mississippi Lock and Dam 2 in Hastings. The city is in a partnership with Hydro Green Energy, LLC.

Local Firm Turning on Turbines to Generate Hydrokinetic Power - January 2009
Next week, beneath the icy waters of the Mississippi River, the nation’s first open-water hydrokinetic turbine is scheduled to begin contributing electricity to the town of Hastings in southeastern Minnesota...

Recession Isn't Hurting Some Alt Energy Movements - January 2009
There's plenty of action on the alternative energy front despite the considerable downdraft in most energy-related industries created by the severity of the recession. Here's a sampling of what will stir the pot for hydropower, solar power and ocean power over the next few years...

First Commercial Hydrokinetic Plant - January 2009
U.S.-based Hydro Green Energy announced it started its first commercial hydrokinetic project...

Letter to the Editor: AP Story on River Turbine Got the Facts Wrong - January 2009
The Dec. 27 Associated Press article, “Turbine promises profit, worries river advocates,” contained ill-informed and misleading comments by Steve Johnson...

First Fully Licensed, US Hydrokinetic Power Project Underway In Hastings Minnesota - January 2009
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued its first full license for an in-stream hydro-kinetic power project...

First Commercial Hydrokinetic Power Turbine Installed; DOE Unveils Hydropower Database - January 2009
Hydro Green Energy LLC has completed the installation of one of two turbines at the United States' first-ever commercial hydrokinetic power project...

Congressman John Kline Letter to the Editor: Congratulations, Hastings! - December 2008
I would like to congratulate the entire community of Hastings on the deployment of the nation’s first federally licensed hydrokinetic power facility in the United States...

Hastings Home to Nation's First Hydrokinetic Power Station - December 2008
The city of Hastings will be home to the country's first commercial hydrokinetic station...

Hydroelectric Power Goes Greener, With In-River Turbine - December 2008
Hydroelectric power has always been a pretty "green" way to generate electricty, simply interrupting the natural hydrological cycle to borrow some of its potential energy to convert to electrical power...

Commission OKs ‘Green’ Turbine At Dam on the Mississippi River - December 2008
Before the end of the year, the first in-stream hydrokinetic turbine to produce commercial power will be installed in the upper Mississippi River — just days after receiving the a first of its kind approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the device...

Nation's First 'Underwater Wind Turbine' Installed in Old Man River - December 2008
The nation's first commercial hydrokinetic turbine, which harnesses the power from moving water without the construction of a dam, has splashed into the waters of the Mississippi River near Hastings, Minnesota...

A new project could generate hydro with turbines installed in the water - December 2008
The Niagara River's rapid current could be a source of clean energy to power millions of homes, schools and other Western New York buildings over the next few years...

FERC Approves Deployment of First U.S. Hydrokinetic Power Station - December 2008
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Monday approved by a 5-0 vote the licensing and installation of the nation’s first commercial hydrokinetic power station...

Hydro Green Energy project approved - December 2008
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the nation's first hydrokinetic plant...

FERC approves Hydro Green power station - December 2008
Hydro Green Energy LLC has received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to instal the nation’s first commercially-operational hydrokinetic power station...

FERC approves first hydrokinetic plant at existing hydro facility - December 2008
The first hydrokinetic plant to be attached to an existing hydro power facility has won approval from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)...

New Hydrokinetic Power Project for Old Muddy - December 2008
The Mississippi River will be the site of a first-of-its-kind project aimed at harnessing the river’s flow to create energy without dams or diversions...

US FERC Approves Hydrokinetic Project on Mississippi River - December 2008
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Saturday approved a small hydrokinetic power project that developer Hydro Green Energy intends to install below an existing hydropower dam on the Mississippi River owned by the city of Hastings, Minnesota...

New Form of Hydropower Arrives - December 2008
“Delicate” probably wouldn’t be the first word one would use to describe something the size of a backyard swimming pool that weighs about as much as 14 Hummers...

HR 1424 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 which Includes a PTC for All Hydrokinetics - October 2008
President Bush signed into law HR 1424, which includes the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008. The Act extends the Production Tax Credit and Investment Tax Credit that are essential to the growth of renewable energy in the United States...

Hydro Energy Entrepreneur Wayne Krouse - September 2008
Wayne F. Krouse is the chairman, chief executive officer, and founder of Hydro Green Energy. He founded the company in 2002 after a short but distinguished career with Nalco/Exxon Energy Chemicals. He was the Research & Development chairperson of the National Hydropower Association in 2007...

Barack Obama's Finance Lesson - September 2008
Hydro Green Energy Chief Executive Wayne Krouse is an Atlas Shrugged kind of guy who waited four years for a patent that would allow him to launch a cleantech company that holds the promise of greatly enhancing hydropower capacity in the U.S...

Renewable IPP Hunts Financing - August 2008
Hydro Green Energy is looking to complete a second-round of financing by the end of November for the first commercial hydrokinetic project-licensed by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...

Offshore wind-hydro ventures to be explored - August 2008
Hydro Green energy is to explore the potential for offshore projects using a hybrid of wind and ocean current hydrokinetic technologies...

Wind + Waves in Gulf of Mexico - July 2008
Two New Energy companies with an interest in developing the Gulf of Mexico’s wealth of resources are pooling their talents in an incredibly exciting venture...

Texas Companies Exploring Hybrid Offshore Wind and Water Power - July 2008
Houston-based Hydro Green Energy, LLC and the Wind Energy Systems Technology Group (W.E.S.T.) have agreed to explore the potential to develop hybrid offshore wind-hydrokinetic ocean current power projects...

Hydro Green Energy To Tap Mississippi in September, Seeks $70M - July 2008
The Big Muddy could soon be a bit greener with some hydrokinetic turbines from Hyrdo Green Energy. The Houston, Tex.-based startup tells us it is planning to have the first commercially operable hydrokinetic energy project in Mississippi River waters up and running by September...

Hydro Green, Wind Energy Systems to explore hybrid offshore power projects - July 2008
Houston-based Hydro Green Energy LLC is teaming up with another Gulf Coast company on what could be the world’s first combination wind-hydro power project in the Gulf of Mexico...

Cleantech Venture Investment Reaches Record of $2 Billion in 2Q08 - July 2008
The Cleantech Group™, founders of the cleantech investment category and providers of leading global market research and investment services to its members, today announced 2Q08 results for cleantech venture investments North America, Europe, China and India...

Raising the Game - June 2008
Houston, Texas-based Hydro Green Energy (HGE) is one of a growing number of players in the field of hydrokinetic power production in the US...

Who Owns the Tides? - June 2008
Alaska's fast-tracked wave permits...

Hydropower: Rapid Returns? - June 2008
Several companies are eyeing spots on the Niagara River floor to place a new technology they say could produce hundreds of “green collar” jobs and clean electricity...

Preliminary permits sought from FERC for Niagara River hydrokinetic projects - May 2008
Two companies are seeking preliminary permits from FERC for hydrokinetic power generation projects on the Niagara River in New York...

Letters to the Editor of The Buffalo News - May 2008
Thursday’s article on the proposed Niagara River hydrokinetic power projects contained several inaccuracies...

Hydro Green Energy caps off first funding round in growing “hydrokinetic” market - April 2008
Hydro Green Energy, another player in the burgeoning hydrokinetic sector, has just capped a $2.6 million first funding round led by the Quercus Trust...

Energy COOL: Hydro Kinetic Power for Renewable Electricity - March 2008
Hyrdo Green Energy has developed a hydro-kinetic power system that can be placed in-stream for generating power, for example, along rivers without the massive installation requirements of a dam and, thus, minimal implications on the river's natural flow...

Hydroelectric firm proposes project for Lubec Narrows - March 2008
The Lubec Narrows could be the site of a hydroelectric project proposed by Hydro Green Energy LLC. The Houston, Texas, company has applied for a preliminary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to study the feasibility of such a project...

FERC gives nod to water energy projects - June 2007
The four projects, which will be owned and operated by Houston, Texas-based Hydro Green, will combine traditional water energy technology with new hydrokinetic energy technologies at existing U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' dams at Arkabutla, Enid, Grenada and Sardis lakes...

Hydro Green Energy, LLC Turns The Tide With Validation From NASA SATOP - May 2007
HydroGreen Energy, LLC, is creating a new wave in renewable energy technology: by placing hydro-turbines in the flow of tidal currents, the company can produce energy at a higher capacity...

House Committee on Ways and Means - Hearing on Member Proposals on Energy Tax Incentives -Statement of Wayne F. Krouse - April 2007
As the President, C.E.O. and Founder of a U.S. company with hydrokinetic power projects currently in development, I appreciate the opportunity to provide my thoughts in writing to the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures regarding the need to include hydrokinetic power technologies (river, ocean and tidal) as qualifying resources in the Section 45 Production Tax Credit (PTC)...

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Hydro Green Energy in Big River Magazine, "Barge Power" - November-December 2006
Hastings, Minn. — A barge-based generator that produces electricity from river current may begin operating late next year in this...

Chairman and CEO Wayne Krouse speaks at Texas Renewables 06 on "Cutting Edge Technologies." - November 14, 2006

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Hydro Green Energy in Time Magazine, "River Power Rises, Hydro Electricity and dams go hand in hand--but that may no longer have to be the case" - October 29, 2006
Wayne Krouse has a seductive idea: dam-free hydropower. In a year, his start-up, Hydro Green Energy of Houston, plans to have a pair of turbines pumping electricity from...

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Hydro Green Energy in the Hastings Gazette, "Hastings will benefit from new 'hydro' power" - October 19th, 2006
Hastings will soon be home to some new technology in the world of hydroelectric power. he Hydro Green Kinetic Hydropower Installation...

Hydro Green Energy in the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, "Experimental barge may draw energy from river" - October 5, 2006
On Monday, the Hastings City Council approved the preliminary plan for an experimental hydropower barge that will...

Hydro Green Energy in the Houston Business Journal, "Start-up firm hopes for water-powered splash" - May 26, 2006
Hydro Green Energy LLC is on the cutting edge of efforts to develop and commercialize a hydro technology that does not require costly and environmentally disruptive dams...

Hydro Green Energy Accepts Invitation to Join Houston Technology Center - May 15, 2006
Hydro Green Energy, LLC announced that effective
immediately the company has accepted the invitation to join the Houston Technology Center
(HTC)...