Hydro-Gen current turbine

Hydro-Gen is a complete current turbine integrated system including:
- a self-propelled barge      
- a current turbine, located under the barge (in turbining), or on the deck.      

The turbine can easily go up and down in less than one minute. This allows easy implementation and all 
installation, maintenance or servicing operations by a single person in a few hours, and of course without 
underwater intervention. 

The barge and its pilot install the mooring lines and the shore connection cable, or move them according to 
seasonality, in complete autonomy, without the help of any external support such as tug, crane, support 
building, ROV. 

This "all-in-one" concept is the key to cost control. 

It is an innovative, exclusive and unique technology in the panorama of marine and river energies : 
- The easiest to manufacture, install, move, maintain, repair, neutralize, dismantle. 
- It produces the cheapest kWh. 

It is particularly relevant for isolated sites, rural electrification, energy self-sufficiency, non-interconnected 
areas.      

The Hydro-Gen team has been conducting tests at sea since 2006. Thousands of test results and several 
prototypes have enabled the development of reliable, high-performance, low-cost technology, ensuring its 
customers an optimal use of marine and river energy. 

The company market one hydro turbine with a power of 20 kW and develops anoter of 70 kW.

NEWS

Find out about the installation and connection of a current turbine in an isolated rural area on the River Congo in October 2021, with teams from the NGOs Potamai and Electriciens sans Frontières (Electricians without Borders). A real challenge!

The good recipe: The combination of two simple ideas. A large multi-service community house - the Essentials Services Unit or USE - and a permanent (non-intermittent) renewable energy supply from a tidal turbine installed on the Congo River, 200 m away.

David Adrian, the creator of the "Hydro-Gen" current turbine technology, talks you through the challenges of installing and connecting a tidal turbine.

Where Jean-François, head of the NGO team "Electriciens sans Frontières" (Electricians without Borders) explains - with humour - the background to the project, and its implementation.

Among the many activities made possible by the arrival of electricity in rural areas was an incubator and the birth of a duckling, the first of many, named "Surprise". A happy surprise commented on by a child...

...Or how the bakery works. Every morning, delicious rolls are offered to the villagers. The tidal turbine produces the cheapest Kwh in Africa.

14 April 2003: Inauguration of the Loubassa site by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo. A remarkable pilot site, much visited, often audited, full of potential for expansion.

Spring 2024: Construction of a new USE at Kibangou, on the Niairi river in the northern Republic of Congo.

End 2024: Manufacturing the barge for the Kibangou tidal turbine. To reduce overall costs (Capex and Opex), facilitate logistics and promote the integration of future current turbines, it was decided to manufacture the barge locally. The turbine, power electronics and some equipments will be shipped from France.


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Installation of a "Hydro-Gen" turbine on an offshore oil platform. The purpose of the turbine is to "decarbonise" the platform, i.e. to replace the generator that supplies it with electricity.