Nomination hydro turbine Kallo lock for environmental award Green4Sea (+ video)

The Green4Sea Awards are an initiative of the information platform Safety4Sea. Awards are handed out in several categories, including Ports, Clean Shipping, Technology, Initiative, operators and personalities. In the Ports category, Antwerp Port Authority has been nominated for its Hydropower project. That project is investigating whether the locks in the Port of Antwerp could eventually become energy-neutral. A pilot project started in December 2018, in which the kallo lock was equipped with a 100-kilowatt hydro turbine. The turbine was developed and installed by the construction company De Meyer in collaboration with Water2Energy, and with innovation support from the Flemish government’s agency for innovation and entrepreneurship VLAIO.