HEIDENHEIM, Germanyand BROSSARD, Quebec, Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --The Voith Group of Companies has acquired Granby, Quebec-based Vortex Hydrosystemes Inc. Founded in 2001, Vortex Hydro offers ...

A device to harvest energy from the St. Clair River — first tested in Port Huron in August 2010 — could be returning to the blue water. Vortex Hydro Energy is about six months into a three-year ...

November 25, 2008 Hydro-power systems are by far the most widely used form of renewable energy on the planet (in 2005 they accounted for an estimated 63% of all electricity produced via renewable ...

Hydrokinetic technology targets low-knot water currents that are off-limits to conventional devices. In 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State collapsed due to the effects of Vortex ...

Vivace is a new energy technology that gets its name from a phenomenon that engineers have been battling for 25 years. VIV (vortex induced vibrations) destroyed the Narrows Bridge in Washington State ...

Vortex Hydro Energy, a spinout of renewable power research at the University of Michigan, is installilng its first major "hydrokinetic" power generating device in the St. Clair River off Port Huron ...