Kinetic Hydro Ltd is a UK-based technology start-up. It was founded in 2019 by Donald and Richard, two engineers who have led the design teams of world-class tidal and wave energy companies. They are now combining these skills and experience to develop hydro-kinetic river turbines based on the technology they have deployed in some of the harshest conditions on Earth
Who we are
Donald Naylor and Richard Montague have 25 years’ experience of what works, and what doesn’t, when you put powerful equipment in the water! The river turbine utilises only the best bits of that hard-won knowledge
Anna Robertson joined the team in 2022 as Commercial Lead
We have successfully secured a grant of £238K for Energy
Catalyst round 9. Our feasibility project started in January
2023 for 12 months. Kinetic Hydro Ltd is the lead on the
project with three partners; University of Leister,
Challenges Catalyst and Practical action
The purpose of this project is to determine how feasible it
is to use our river turbine to accelerate access to
affordable, clean energy services in Uganda and to design
a follow-up project to demonstrate this in practice in 2024-
2025
The University of Leicester will develop satellite techniques
to assess how deep and fast the rivers in Uganda are
Challenges Group, a Scottish-African development agency will conduct market assessment and deliver a commercialisation strategy for Uganda
Practical Action will conduct on the ground research and identify the site for our pilot project in 2024
Energy Catalyst funding enables us & our partners to focus our respective expertise on applying river turbines to addressing SDG7 in Uganda
This will pave the way for future projects to have positive impacts on energy access to poor and rural households in future years
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