Johannes Santen

Role: Staff Mechanical Engineer at Natel Energy
Location: Berkeley, CA, US
LinkedIn followers: 500 followers

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About Johannes Santen

Building and operating fish-friendly, distributed hydropower, for clean, ecological, and…

Experience

Staff Mechanical Engineer
Natel Energy
Jul 2022 — Present
Leading control systems and data analytics for fish-safe hydro turbines

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Precision Machining
Classic Controls
Rapid Prototyping
Hydraulics
Computational Modeling
Failure Analysis
Finite Element Analysis
Metal Fabrication
P&Id
Machine Design
Materials Science
Cad
Testing
Project Management
Engineering
Matlab
Solidworks
Machining
Cnc Manufacturing
Photography
Autocad
Graphic Design
Image Editing
Cnc Machining
Adobe Creative Suite
Photo Editing

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Current company

Natel Energy

40 employees · Founded 2009 · Alameda, CA, United States

Natel Energy unlocks stranded hydro resources with patented FishSafe™ turbine designs that fit directly into existing civil works across Francis, Kaplan, and propeller configurations. Across North America and Europe, aging hydro fleets face a modernization and relicensing crisis: conventional compliance methods cut annual generation by up to 14% and erode asset value, leaving clean, dispatchable capacity stranded in infrastructure that already exists. FishSafe™ turbines recover that capacity; delivering hydraulic efficiency on par with the world's leading turbine designs, up to 10% more output by eliminating flow losses, and 2-10x faster ROI versus conventional compliance alternatives. The environmental case is equally urgent. Monitored freshwater fish populations have declined 85% since 1970, with river fragmentation from hydropower infrastructure among the primary drivers (WWF, 2024). FishSafe™ turbines achieve 98-100% through-turbine fish passage survival; demonstrated across multiple species including American eel, white sturgeon, rainbow trout, and juvenile alewife in peer-reviewed science; restoring the downstream migration corridors that fish, ecosystems, and the communities that depend on them require. Founded by MIT-trained siblings Gia and Abe Schneider, Natel has contracted over 1,100 MW in FishSafe™ design and implementation projects across North America and Europe, working with leading turbine manufacturers to bring these designs to modernization projects at scale.

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