Company Releases
Historic Hydro Site in Oban Upgraded with New Compact Pelton Turbine
A major milestone has been achieved at a long-standing hydroelectric site near Oban, where Gilkes commissioning engineers have successfully installed …
New hydro installation completed in Japan
We’re proud to share our latest installation of a compact 55kW Turgo turbine for a small run-of-river hydropower project in …
We are officially SSIP accredited
Gilkes is proud to announce that we have achieved SSIP certification as both Principal Contractor and Principal Designer for our …
Hydro Commissioning at Sherard Water Treatment Plant
Our hydro engineers are recently back from the USA after successfully completing the commissioning of our latest hydropower turbine in …
Global Hydropower Day 2022 – Celebrating Hydropower in the English Lake District
On Global Hydropower Day we are celebrating the hydropower on our doorstep. Gilkes head office is in Kendal, known as the …
Grytviken Micro Hydro
Earlier this month our hydro sales team signed a contract with the Government of South Georgia for a micro hydro …
10 Years of Servicing Scotland’s Small Hydro Fleet
In early 2011, it was clear that the Feed in Tariff was achieving exactly what it was designed to do …
Gilkes Invest in Next Generation Machining Capability
Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon Ltd. delivers innovative, single source solutions to the small hydropower and High horsepower engine markets and …
Investment in New Computing Cluster keeps Gilkes Innovation Flowing
Gilkes has recently invested in a major upgrade to its fluid flow analysis capability with the installation of a new …
New trash rack cleaning machine for UNIPER, Germany
With the TRCM-G60, Kuenz has designed a new Rope Type Trash Rack Machine. This new machine type will be installed …
Gilkes Continue to Expand African Hydro Portfolio
Gilkes Hydro have received an order from Mulanje Renewable Energy (MRE) for the supply and commissioning of 2 Pelton Hydro …
Rehabilitation works carried out above water for headrace channel, St Pantaleon, Austria
BackgroundThe 3,700 m headrace channel at St Pantaleon is operated by Ennskraftwerke, Steyr for power production for one of its …
Construction of two dams with asphaltic concrete cores in Norway
BackgroundDense Asphaltic Concrete is used globally to line upstream dam faces, reservoirs, channels and landfill. For over 50 years it …
Upgrade of upper reservoir increases power production efficiency at Goldisthal, Germany
The BackgroundGoldisthal pump storage scheme is situated 50 km south of Erfurt in the Thuringian Mountains, Germany. The power station, …
Rehabilitation of lining of 11.3 km long sections of headrace channel, Alz channel, Bavaria
The BackgroundThe Alz channel is a manmade 18 km long headrace channel, which provides water for power production and cooling …