2023 Make A Splash Contest 2nd and 3rd Place Winners - Small, Distributed, or Low-Impact Hydropower

Power Creek Dam Project in Cordova, Alaska. The Power Creek hydroelectric plant is located 7 miles east of Cordova and has a total installed generating capacity of 6 megawatts. Photo taken by Levi Rowland, edited by Deanna Kendall, and released by Thomas Tapp, Seed Media

Natel's mechanical team in California prototypes a guide vane housing for a scale-model turbine used in fish passage testing at their hydraulic test facility.

Hancock Hydroelectric Creekside Intake in Washington. Snohomish County Public Utility District's Hancock Creek Hydroelectric Project is a 6-megawatt run-of-river hydroelectric generating facility.

View downriver from the Albion hydropower dam in Cumberland, Rhode Island.

Sunset view of Emrgy's distributed hydropower project in Colorado. The image shows the renewable energy potential from canal waterways.