Examples

Great Britain

Friends of the Peak A comprehensive resource of a regional view of a region’s potential, the engineering and evaluation criteria and a good place to start looking into the topic

Water Power Enterprises (h2oPE) is proud to be a social enterprise. The Board has both a business and community focus. We believe we have a working business model that can deliver renewable energy, that can engage local communities and that can provide investors with an ethical, long term opportunity that does nothing less than help save the planet

Settle Hydro and Torryshydro One of the UK’s first community owned hydropower Scheme are ones of the UK’s first community owned hydropower Scheme actually being implemented

Germany

GreenPeace Energy : Green Energy Cooperative

Belgium

Ecopower – Flamish Region – 1991, 31.000 members - Dirk’s company, is mostly Focus on Wind technologies, but is also currently implementing small/micro hydro power sites primarily in the northern part of Belgium in an environmentally and historically sensitive manner using patrimonie funding

Windmills Park in Dour Quiévrain

BeauVent cvba, °2000, 1600 members

Emissions-Zéro scrl, °2007, 1200 members

Clef scrl

Courant d’air scrl, °2010

Citipar scrl

Lucéole scrl

France

Enercoop scic, °2005, 5000 members

Moulins du Pays de Vilaine

Luxembourg

Eida sa

Netherlands

Coöperatieve Vereniging Onze Energie, Amsterdam-Noord

Zeeuwind, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen

Westfriese Wind Coöperatie, West Friesland, Andijk, Hoorn en omgeving

Waterland

U-Wind, Houten, Utrecht en omgeving

Noordenwind, groot deel van NO-Nederland

Meerwind, Haarlemmermeer

Kennemerwind, Alkmaar, Camperduin.

De Windvogel, Gouda en (verre) omstreken

Deltawind, Goeree Overflakkee

De Eendragt, Den Helder en omgeving

Zaanse Energie Koöperatie, Zaanstreek

Texel Energie, Texel

Italy

Avanzi, sustainable research center

Spain

SOM Energia, °2010, 540 members

Enercoop, 14.000 members

Ireland

Waterford Renewable Energy Co-Operative Society Limited, °2007

Canada

ROR Power develops renewable, sustainable energy through its portfolio of run-of-river and biomass projects. The company’s Brandywine Creek run-of-river hydro project is currently producing green, renewable electricity for approximately 4,000 homes. ROR Power’s total development potential of 715 MW represents a significant opportunity to help BC meet its demand for clean, sustainable power and achieve energy self-sufficiency by 2016

A less environmentally intrusive way than big dams to develop hydro power is known as run-of-river hydro and more of this is just what’s being planned for British Columbia