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HR 1424 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 which Includes a PTC for All Hydrokinetics - October 2008
President Bush signed into law HR 1424, which includes the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008. The Act extends the Production Tax Credit and Investment Tax Credit that are essential to the growth of renewable energy in the United States...

Barack Obama's Finance Lesson - September 2008
Hydro Green Energy Chief Executive Wayne Krouse is an Atlas Shrugged kind of guy who waited four years for a patent that would allow him to launch a cleantech company that holds the promise of greatly enhancing hydropower capacity in the U.S...

Renewable IPP Hunts Financing - August 2008
Hydro Green Energy is looking to complete a second-round of financing by the end of November for the first commercial hydrokinetic project-licensed by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...

Offshore wind-hydro ventures to be explored - August 2008
Hydro Green energy is to explore the potential for offshore projects using a hybrid of wind and ocean current hydrokinetic technologies...

Wind + Waves in Gulf of Mexico - July 2008
Two New Energy companies with an interest in developing the Gulf of Mexico’s wealth of resources are pooling their talents in an incredibly exciting venture...

Texas Companies Exploring Hybrid Offshore Wind and Water Power - July 2008
Houston-based Hydro Green Energy, LLC and the Wind Energy Systems Technology Group (W.E.S.T.) have agreed to explore the potential to develop hybrid offshore wind-hydrokinetic ocean current power projects...

Hydro Green Energy To Tap Mississippi in September, Seeks $70M - July 2008
The Big Muddy could soon be a bit greener with some hydrokinetic turbines from Hyrdo Green Energy. The Houston, Tex.-based startup tells us it is planning to have the first commercially operable hydrokinetic energy project in Mississippi River waters up and running by September...

Hydro Green, Wind Energy Systems to explore hybrid offshore power projects - July 2008
Houston-based Hydro Green Energy LLC is teaming up with another Gulf Coast company on what could be the world’s first combination wind-hydro power project in the Gulf of Mexico...

Cleantech Venture Investment Reaches Record of $2 Billion in 2Q08 - July 2008
The Cleantech Group™, founders of the cleantech investment category and providers of leading global market research and investment services to its members, today announced 2Q08 results for cleantech venture investments North America, Europe, China and India...

Raising the Game - June 2008
Houston, Texas-based Hydro Green Energy (HGE) is one of a growing number of players in the field of hydrokinetic power production in the US...

Who Owns the Tides? - June 2008
Alaska's fast-tracked wave permits...

Hydropower: Rapid Returns? - June 2008
Several companies are eyeing spots on the Niagara River floor to place a new technology they say could produce hundreds of “green collar” jobs and clean electricity...

Preliminary permits sought from FERC for Niagara River hydrokinetic projects - May 2008
Two companies are seeking preliminary permits from FERC for hydrokinetic power generation projects on the Niagara River in New York...

Letters to the Editor of The Buffalo News - May 2008
Thursday’s article on the proposed Niagara River hydrokinetic power projects contained several inaccuracies...

Hydro Green Energy caps off first funding round in growing “hydrokinetic” market - April 2008
Hydro Green Energy, another player in the burgeoning hydrokinetic sector, has just capped a $2.6 million first funding round led by the Quercus Trust...

Energy COOL: Hydro Kinetic Power for Renewable Electricity - March 2008
Hyrdo Green Energy has developed a hydro-kinetic power system that can be placed in-stream for generating power, for example, along rivers without the massive installation requirements of a dam and, thus, minimal implications on the river's natural flow...

Hydroelectric firm proposes project for Lubec Narrows - March 2008
The Lubec Narrows could be the site of a hydroelectric project proposed by Hydro Green Energy LLC. The Houston, Texas, company has applied for a preliminary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to study the feasibility of such a project...

FERC gives nod to water energy projects - June 2007
The four projects, which will be owned and operated by Houston, Texas-based Hydro Green, will combine traditional water energy technology with new hydrokinetic energy technologies at existing U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' dams at Arkabutla, Enid, Grenada and Sardis lakes...

Hydro Green Energy, LLC Turns The Tide With Validation From NASA SATOP - May 2007
HydroGreen Energy, LLC, is creating a new wave in renewable energy technology: by placing hydro-turbines in the flow of tidal currents, the company can produce energy at a higher capacity...

House Committee on Ways and Means - Hearing on Member Proposals on Energy Tax Incentives -Statement of Wayne F. Krouse - April 2007
As the President, C.E.O. and Founder of a U.S. company with hydrokinetic power projects currently in development, I appreciate the opportunity to provide my thoughts in writing to the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures regarding the need to include hydrokinetic power technologies (river, ocean and tidal) as qualifying resources in the Section 45 Production Tax Credit (PTC)...

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Hydro Green Energy in Big River Magazine, "Barge Power" - November-December 2006
Hastings, Minn. — A barge-based generator that produces electricity from river current may begin operating late next year in this....

Chairman and CEO Wayne Krouse speaks at Texas Renewables 06 on "Cutting Edge Technologies." - November 14, 2006

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Hydro Green Energy in Time Magazine, "River Power Rises, Hydro Electricity and dams go hand in hand--but that may no longer have to be the case" - October 29, 2006
Wayne Krouse has a seductive idea: dam-free hydropower. In a year, his start-up, Hydro Green Energy of Houston, plans to have a pair of turbines pumping electricity from.....
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Hydro Green Energy in the Hastings Gazette, "Hastings will benefit from new 'hydro' power" - October 19th, 2006
Hastings will soon be home to some new technology in the world of hydroelectric power. he Hydro Green Kinetic Hydropower Installation......

Hydro Green Energy in the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, "Experimental barge may draw energy from river" - October 5, 2006
On Monday, the Hastings City Council approved the preliminary plan for an experimental hydropower barge that will......

Hydro Green Energy in the Houston Business Journal, "Start-up firm hopes for water-powered splash" - May 26, 2006
Hydro Green Energy LLC is on the cutting edge of efforts to develop and commercialize a hydro technology that does not require costly and environmentally disruptive dams....