May 6, 2011

Power Project For Mississippi - Google News

KWQC 6
With recent flooding, we've seen the power of the Mississippi River. But should it be harnessed to generate power? Boston-based Free Flow Power thinks so. "We're here because we see an excellent resource in the Mississippi River. ...

Boston company looks to harness hydropower in QC
cbs4qc.com
It's all about harnessing the power of the Mighty Mississippi. A Boston firm, Free Flow Power, wants to use four area locks and dams to put in turbines and create clean energy. "We're of the strong belief that this renewable concept of clean ...

Mississippi hydropower plans outlined
Quad City Times
Jack Batchelder of Free Flow Power opens a meeting in Moline about adding hydropower to some Mississippi River dams. (Mark Ridolfi/Quad-City Times) - A conventional powerhouse built adjacent to dams with three submerged turbines up to 150 feet long and ...

MASSIVE TURBINES EYED FOR MISSISSIPPI RIVER ELECTRICITY PROJECT

A U.S. startup is working on a plan to install hundreds of 40-kilowatt hydrokinetic turbines, each the size of a large jet engine, along the bottom of the Mississippi River, an ambitious renewable energy project developers say could someday produce more than one gigawatt of electricity — enough to power 250,000 homes. While the technology remains relatively unproven, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently granted the company, Free Flow Power, preliminary rights to explore the potential for dozens of turbine locations along the 2,320-mile river. Although most efforts to develop hydrokinetic energy projects so far have focused on tidal or wave energy, the company says river installations have significant advantages. “The water flows in one direction, it doesn’t have salt in it, and, in the case of the Mississippi, people have spent 100 years tracking water flows and velocities,” said Henry Dormitzer, the company’s chief financial officer. The challenges, however, will be to show that the turbines will not impact marine life or the massive volume of traffic on the river. The only commercial hydrokinetic river project currently in use is a single turbine installed on the Mississippi by Texas-based Hydro Green Energy near Hastings, Minn.

Free Flow Power Corporation

Documents

Here you will find copies of documents that Free Flow Power has made available for public viewing.