Vortex Hydro Energy LLC provides hydrokinetic power generating devices. Its technology VIVACE extracts energy from ocean, river, tidal, and other water currents. The company serves coastal electrical generation, low-head hydropower, and desalination pumping markets. Tortex Hydro Energy has exclusive license to commercialize a University of Michigan patented, hydrokinetic power generating device, the VIVACE converter, which harnesses hydrokinetic energy of river and ocean currents. This converter is unlike water turbines as it does not use propellers. VIVACE uses the physical phenomenon of vortex induced vibration in which water current flows around cylinders inducing transverse motion. The energy contained in the movement of the cylinder is then converted to electricity. The firm is focused to providing cost effective, clean, renewable electricity and fresh water. The technology, nicknamed VIVACE, uses the extensively studied phenomenon of vortex induced vibrations to extract useful energy from ocean, river, tidal and other water currents. VIVACE installations are non-obtrusive, environmentally friendly, and have an extremely high energy density compared to other renewable technologies
