Entries for I AM Hydro

Intend to create the “Multi-Functional Industrially Integrated Hydro Power System” for all applicable environments and economies.

We leverage an emergent solid-state additive manufacturing technique to provide improved repairs to turbines at substantially decreased cost

Our team developed composite magnet using advanced manufacture to increase generator efficiency, energy production and reduce LCOE by 20%.

Combat corrosive environments via 3D printing of stainless steel by using its superior corrosion resistance and lesser lead time to make.

Interphase Materials proposes the use of an innovative anti-fouling coating to reduce hydropower maintenance costs and improve efficiency.

Contour Grid is building energy storage systems with robots for utilities. The system removes the physical and logistical barriers of PHS.

3D Concrete Printing to manufacture low cost retrofits for a wider variety of NPDs than is currently possible using conventional methods.

In order to solve the fish migration problem, it is designed to build the embankment along the river instead of digging the original river

We 3D print a desired component's surface in PLA which we vaporize to get a solid metal replica faster, cheaper, and with better properties.

An AI artificial intelligence method integrated into an optimization program coupled to real test data yields significant efficiency gains.

Mechanical metamaterials are a class of advanced materials with computationally optimized structure for improved vibration dampening

Floatovoltaics can allow hydropower achieve its vision of 50GW by 2050. The LCOSS for floatovoltaics + pumped hydro is below $20/MWh.

Reclaim Energies strives to create novel technical solutions to harness hydroelectric power and revolutionize society's wastewater use.

Cadens links automated design to AM to radically reduce costs for micro/small hydro parts and tooling and increase annual energy production.

Easily fabricated, nano-pillar asperities for a very low friction future. The energy-savings estimate is 120 EJ/A (20% of the world energy).

Saving on Sediment exclusion Infra, protection to reservoir and river, power generated from sediment-laden water, easy to build and set up