#hydro

🇨🇭 Switzerland · ADEV Energiegenossenschaft

Switzerland's oldest citizen energy cooperative lets ordinary members co-own the solar, wind and hydro plants powering their neighborhoods.

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina · Center for Environment (Centar za životnu sredinu)

A Banja Luka NGO whose river-protection campaigns persuaded Bosnia's second-largest city, and a dozen more municipalities, to pledge no new dams on their rivers.

🇵🇭 Philippines · Green Empowerment

A Portland-based nonprofit partners with grassroots engineers to build community-owned micro-hydro systems that bring reliable, affordable electricity to Indigenous villages in the Philippine highlands.

🇧🇪 Belgium · Ecopower cvba

Belgium's oldest energy cooperative lets more than 70,000 citizens co-own the wind turbines and solar panels that power their homes.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Red Rocket South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Two run-of-river turbines on the Ash River generate enough renewable power for nearly 2,000 Free State households, with a share of revenue funding local jobs, a gym and a children's daycare.

🇷🇸 Serbia · RERI (Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute)

A Belgrade legal watchdog using Serbia's own regulations to fight illegally sited small hydropower plants that were draining protected mountain rivers.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust (Eigg Electric)

Since 2008, the roughly 100 residents of Scotland's Isle of Eigg have collectively owned and run the world's first off-grid community electricity network powered by hydro, wind, and solar.

🇨🇩 DR Congo · Virunga Foundation

Africa's oldest national park protects a third of the world's mountain gorillas while its hydropower plants create thousands of jobs for peace.

🇦🇹 Austria · illwerke vkw AG

Vorarlberg's state-owned utility runs an Alpine hydropower fleet that keeps the region's electricity fully renewable, and is building Austria's largest pumped-storage plant to help balance Europe's grid.