Riverworks partners with owners of historic hydroelectric facilities across the Northeast to preserve, modernize, and return them to fuller productive use.
For two centuries, the rivers of New England powered the mills, forges, and towns that shaped a nation. These works were never monuments. They were built to work. We acquire, or partner with, the families, mills, and municipalities that have kept them alive, and we invest what it takes to modernize each one to its full potential: generating, earning, and bringing working enterprise back to the river's edge for another century.
We acquire or partner with operating hydroelectric stations and the dams, canals, and powerhouses that carry them, restoring each site to full working order and full productive use. A restored site should earn its keep, the way it always did.
Where the land allows, we add solar generation alongside the river, turning each site into a fuller expression of what it can provide, in every season.
Local jobs, local taxes, dams kept safe and sound. A working site can be a handsome one, and a Riverworks site should be a point of pride for its town, the way it was a century ago.
“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes.”Leonardo da Vinci
If you own or operate a hydroelectric station in the Northeast, whether it's been in your family for generations or on your books for decades, we'd welcome a conversation. Quiet, respectful, and on your timeline.
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