A new subterranean turbine technology is now generating enough electricity to power 150 homes in the city of Portland.
"In Portland, Oregon, the city installed four of these pipe turbines along a single water pipe earlier this year, and this week announced that they're successfully generating enough power for about 150 homes," reports CityMetric.
Keely Chalmers originally broke the news of the accomplishment, also noting that Portland is the first city to find a commercial application for the turbine technology, created by Portland-based Lucid Energy. Lucid funded the deployment of the turbines (at the cost of $1.5 million) and will share the revenue from the electricity sold to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PGE) by the Portland Water Bureau.
CityMetric's coverage of the new technology includes a caveat about the electricity generating capacity of the technology, which can also be found in the video below.
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