Existing hydro power can be harnessed via weirs, gates and dams. Great care should be taken when exploiting hydro power plants in existing systems such as drinking water, processing water and sewage water.

A secure and economic supply of electric current is today, more than ever, of outmost importance for the industry, trade, municipalities and private use. The fossil fuels currently in use such as coal, crude petroleum, natural gas and nuclear fuels will not be available infinitely. Also the minimisation of air pollution by avoiding combustion products such as carbon dioxide should induce us to use more ecologically friendly and already available energy potentials.
The installation of a small hydroelectric power plant in either a newly erected or already existing plant impairs neither nature nor the water cycle.
This circumstance induced already many municipalities and plant operators to devise projects for power generation using the available unused water.

The installation of drinking water plants can be effected in such a way as to exploit the excess water or a pressure drop in closed systems (e.g. in Gaschurn, Salzburg, ….)
In sewage plants with adequate terraced gradients the sewage water or also the pure water can be used before this flows back into the natural watercourse (e.g. sewage clarification plant in Niederranna/A or Geneva/CH). The same possibilities of application are valid for processing water systems.

The company Global Hydro Energy Ltd., situated in Niederranna/Austria, features in this sphere of business special know-how based on decades of experience in the development, manufacture and installation of hydro power turbines and small hydroelectric power plants. Besides the turbines the company also supplies the appropriate hydro power plant equipment such as generator, switchgear and control unit with control software.
Hence, take the opportunity to harness the energy of available water.