Hydropower—the world’s leading renewable energy source—can become even more efficient with M2E.

Hydropower from dams already accounts for 24 percent of the world's electricity and 97% of all electricity generated by renewable sources. Clean and reliable, with no waste products or CO2 emissions, hydropower currently prevents the burning of 22 billion gallons of oil or 120 million tons of coal each year.

Hydroelectric power can be far less expensive than electricity generated from fossil fuels or nuclear energy and is particularly adept at handling high peak loads on a seasonal, and even daily, basis. When electricity demands drop, the dam simply stores more water, which in turn provides more flow when it’s released.

With more than 2,000 hydropower plants, the United States is the second largest producer of hydropower in the world, producing enough electricity to serve the needs of 28 million residential customers, or roughly 10% of the nation’s electricity demand.

Hydropower is in fact the most efficient way to generate electricity with modern hydro turbines converting as much as 90% of the available energy into electricity compared to 50% for the best fossil fuel plants. With even a .5% increase in efficiency hydro generators would be able to draw even more power out of the same amount of water flow.