California Accelerates Move Toward Clean Energy, Resilient Grid
Given the urgency of the climate crisis and the ambition of the state's 100 percent…
ClearEnergy Hydro acquires small, distributed hydro sites, integrating them into a platform for our planet’s social, environmental, and economic prosperity.
We upgrade facilities, accelerate watershed entrepreneurship, and sell renewable energy to corporations prioritizing climate action.
About Us
Clear Energy Hydro is a private-equity backed, Colorado-based, independent green power producer. We leverage advanced technologies, best-in-class engineering, and socially-conscious capital to transform the untapped capacity of water into social, environmental, and economic benefits for our communities. Our team of seasoned entrepreneurs has decades of experience in water, power, sustainability, and innovation.
Working with Us
ClearEnergy works with site owners, entrepreneurs, and climate-focused corporations to add hundreds of megawatts of distributed renewable energy to the grid while enhancing the health of our nation’s watersheds.
Triple Bottom Line Impacts
Currently, the US has over 100,000 MW of untapped energy potential in its existing dams, waterways, and conduits – enough to power 300,000,000 electric cars for one year. Yet, over the past two decades almost no new domestic hydropower has been installed.
Recently, a new generation of demands, technologies, processes and regulations have created a window of opportunity to achieve compelling, long-term, “triple bottom line” impacts from a modern small hydro portfolio.
97% of the nation’s roughly 80,000 existing dams are not currently used to generate power representing 12 GW of untapped hydropower capacity.
The U.S. has 1.2 million miles of water supply mains and a similar number of waste water conduits representing 3.5GW of capacity.
There is 30MW of capacity in the pressurized irrigation systems in Colorado alone. Estimates suggest this source could represent up to 1GW nationally.
65 GW of sustainable small hydro power potential exists in US Streams.
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