Once again, Portland is making itself a test bed for clean
energy. The Portland Water Bureau has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with
the mayor’s office, the Portland Development Commission, and local
hydropower innovator, Lucid
Energy, to test in-pipe hydropower. The technology basically fits round
turbines into large pipe to harvest excess head pressure and converts it
into clean reliable energy. While testing will prove whether this
technology will work on a system wide scale, Portland leaders are hopeful.
In the video below, Mayor Adam asks Administrator Shaff about his first, honest reaction: “Yeah, I don’t think so. But we’ve looked at it, and our engineers think, well sure, why not? That’s a possibility. Let’s see if we can do something and see if we can be the test bed that they’re looking for. We have large diameter pipe. We have 100 million gallons a day going through our pipes throughout the year, 34 billion gallons a year. If we can capture some energy from that water going through the pipes every day, 24 hours a day, I think that’s a great idea.”
In the video below, Mayor Adam asks Administrator Shaff about his first, honest reaction: “Yeah, I don’t think so. But we’ve looked at it, and our engineers think, well sure, why not? That’s a possibility. Let’s see if we can do something and see if we can be the test bed that they’re looking for. We have large diameter pipe. We have 100 million gallons a day going through our pipes throughout the year, 34 billion gallons a year. If we can capture some energy from that water going through the pipes every day, 24 hours a day, I think that’s a great idea.”
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