Water Power
Photo collage of hydropower projects at SAFL

Hydropower continues to serve as an important source of renewable energy. SAFL has a long legacy of hydropower research, with SAFL's original director, Lorenz Straub, serving to test and inform the design of hydroelectric projects around the globe. Today, SAFL hydropower research looks to not only inform more environmentally friendly hydropower practices, including both traditional dam designs and the testing and incorporation of hydrokinetic turbines, but also has worked on assessing the impacts of dam removal projects.

Affiliated Faculty
Roger Arndt
Michele Guala 
John Gulliver 
Lian Shen 
 

SAFL Researchers
Matthew Lueker
Jeffrey Marr

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Photo of a turbine array, and an image of a topographical scan of the same turbine array
Hydropower, Lakes, Rivers, and Groundwater

Harnessing clean energy from rivers through hydrokinetic turbine arrays

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Hydrokinetic turbines are an emerging hydropower technology that take advantage of moving water currents to generate power.