{"id":524,"date":"2018-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/sustainable-hydropower-drilling\/524\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T18:33:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T18:33:02","slug":"sustainable-hydropower-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/sustainable-hydropower-drilling\/524\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable hydropower drilling with Norhard AS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norhard AS provides an insight into its sustainable hydropower drilling process for hydropower plants.<\/h2>\n

Established in 2007, Norway-based SME Norhard AS is full-service provider of drilling and lining services for the building of pressure shafts in hydropower plants. Since the company started, Norhard has specialised in the development of an innovative new technology for full profile, directional sustainable hydropower drilling, providing the most environmentally friendly and cost-effective solution for the Small Hydro Power Plants (SHPP) market.<\/p>\n

Norhard\u2019s goal is to advance the game-changing technology, by further reducing the environmental impact and investment costs of developing hydropower infrastructure, and consequently facilitate the expansion of the sector as a major source of renewable energy. The Norhard sustainable hydropower drilling concept is based on drilling pressure shafts upwards from the lower side of the mountain, with increased directional drilling capabilities and trajectory accuracy to avoid the huge environmental impact and economic costs of currently used methods \u2013 drill and blast (D&B) and rise boring (RB) \u2013 and eliminate the need for constructing roads to the mountain top.<\/p>\n

Norhard\u2019s sustainable hydropower drilling technology incorporates several proprietary technologies, that uses in-house and off-the-shelf components, integrated by a highly specialised technical\/engineering team. After intensive research and development (R&D) activities and testing, Norhard has successfully commercialised the technology in more than 20 SHPP in Norway.<\/p>\n

As the technology has proven its worth in the initial market of the hydropower sector, the company is now supplying efficient solutions within other business sectors as well. The Norhard sustainable hydropower drilling technology has the potential to be imperative for further development of efficient underground systems \u2013 some of its purposes and applications include:<\/p>\n