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Hydropower can provide a highly reliable and sustainable source of renewable electricity
Regardless of the project scale, successful implementation depends on a thorough understanding of the energy resource, selection of appropriate systems and careful engineering design.
Sound relationships with all project stakeholders, from environmental and planning agencies, to building contractors and power utilities are also fundamental to ensure that a hydropower scheme progresses smoothly to completion.
Pico Energy provide expert guidance, enabling you to piece the hydropower jigsaw together.
We have have designed and installed schemes with ‘heads’ ranging from under two to more than eighty metres using a wide variety of hydropower systems including Pelton, Turgo, Crossflow, Francis turbines and Waterwheels.
Once the project is installed, we will also be on hand to help keep you generating.
Regardless of the project scale, successful implementation depends on a thorough understanding of the energy resource, selection of appropriate systems and careful engineering design.
Sound relationships with all project stakeholders, from environmental and planning agencies, to building contractors and power utilities are also fundamental to ensure that a hydropower scheme progresses smoothly to completion.
Pico Energy provide expert guidance, enabling you to piece the hydropower jigsaw together.
We have have designed and installed schemes with ‘heads’ ranging from under two to more than eighty metres using a wide variety of hydropower systems including Pelton, Turgo, Crossflow, Francis turbines and Waterwheels.
Once the project is installed, we will also be on hand to help keep you generating.
- Pico Energy has installed a hydropower scheme for the Environment Agency in Wales
- Our clients include Local Councils who we have assisted to develop resources which directly off-set electricity costs in public buildings
- Pico Energy are the UK partner for German Hydropower specialists HydroWatt and install their excellent waterwheel systems in the UK including the first waterwheel hydropower scheme which was eligible for the UK’s Feed-in-Tariff
- Specialist software is used for initial scheme design and estimates of energy capture. This is being developed into an online service to be launched later this year
- Internet enabled monitoring systems can be installed which allow scheme operation to be followed remotely
- The inspiration for our logo came from innovative community hydropower projects on Mount Kenya which have led to the creation of many similar schemes in the region