Turning overlooked water flows into multi‑megawatt clean power.

Werlpower’s core concept is simple but powerful: use the kinetic energy in the outfall from Water Resource Recovery Facilities (WRRFs) to drive a modified, utility scale wind turbine generator. By replacing the wind resource with a controlled hydro kinetic source, we unlock a new pathway to firm, renewable electricity.

Each installation is designed to generate electricity in the multi megawatt range, transforming a currently untapped source of energy into a reliable contributor to grid decarbonization. With more than 15,000 WRRFs across the United States, the addressable opportunity is both vast and highly distributed.

Werlpower has developed a technology platform that can exploit hydro sources that current hydropower methods leave unused. Our systems operate wherever there is predictable flow but limited head, enabling new deployments without building large new dams or reservoirs.

Water Resource Recovery Facilities provide an exceptionally reliable hydropower resource: most operate on a 24/7 basis, with continuous flows that are already monitored, managed, and regulated. The water Werlpower targets is the treated outfall—water that has completed its treatment process and is in the final stage of being released.

Individual WRRFs can discharge from a few hundred thousand gallons per day to many millions of gallons per day. This moving water contains substantial kinetic energy, yet today that energy is almost entirely wasted. To minimize erosion, WRRFs are typically designed with very low head at the outfall, which makes traditional hydropower technologies ineffective.

Werlpower’s system changes that equation by generating useful amounts of power from this low head flow, without altering the primary treatment mission of the facility.

Werlpower’s patented technology takes advantage of the non compressible nature of water to create a hydro flywheel. Functionally, this hydro flywheel behaves like a conventional flywheel made of metal or carbon fiber—it stores energy and transfers it on demand—but it is driven by flowing water rather than mechanical inertia alone.

The system captures the kinetic energy of the released outfall water and reshapes the time period over which that energy is delivered to the generator. By spreading and smoothing the release of kinetic energy, Werlpower can generate more useful, grid aligned power from the same underlying water flow.

Hydro flywheel: our patented hydro flywheel technology allows Werlpower to store and convert this energy efficiently, enabling us to generate multi megawatt outputs. This not only can support companies in their sustainability and ESG goals, but also contributes to a broader transition away from fossil fuels.

While the original and still preferred application is WRRF outfalls, Werlpower’s technology is adaptable to a range of other water infrastructures where steady flows and low head conditions exist.

In addition to WRRFs, the Werlpower hydro flywheel can be deployed in:

• Deep, slow flowing rivers – capturing kinetic energy without the need for large impoundments.
• Conventional dams – augmenting existing infrastructure with new low impact generation capacity.
• Large irrigation canals – turning agricultural conveyance systems into distributed power resources.

Across these contexts, the same principles apply: tap into flows that are already present, respect existing operational constraints, and transform overlooked kinetic energy into clean, dispatchable electricity.