Hydropower Turbine

Turbine designs engineered for particular water head and flow conditions to convert the energy of moving water into mechanical rotation, including the Francis, Kaplan and Pelton turbines. Belongs here: hydropower-specific turbine designs. Does not belong here: pumped storage hydropower, which uses this machinery to store energy rather than only generate it, grouped under Energy Storage; the wave energy converter, which harnesses ocean wave motion rather than a river or dam head, grouped under Marine Conversion.