Mr. Raymond Tylicki wrote: > 7 megawatts is typical for a small scale hydroplant in Vermont USA... > Source- Winnoski VT USA Hydroplant
A quick Google brought up: <http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060731/NEWS/60731001/-1/winooski> -- Two other entrepreneurs who have tried to cash in on the Winooski's hydroelectric potential are Matt Rubin and John Warshow - business partners who met "chained to the fence" at Vermont Yankee, when they were nuclear power protestors in the '70s. The pair started by buying two dams, one on the Winooski, in 1985. They then used their record with these two dams to persuade banks and investors to lend $15 million to build the 7.4-megawatt Winooski One hydro plant in Burlington. The plant, which went on line in 1993, has three, six-foot diameter turbines, each of which takes in 8,000 gallons of water per second. -- I must confess I can't immediately think of too many canals in this country which would benefit from a project of this scale ;-) I'm still thinking that useful amounts of power could be generated in a similar way on a much smaller scale next to a canal lock though. Steve NB Bream
